Vietnam Food Prices from World Food Programme, Weekly Updates Since 1992
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Description
98 countries and some 3000 markets are covered in the World Food Programme Price Database, which includes foods such as maize, rice, beans, fish, and sugar. This dataset contains food prices for Vietnam, sourced from that database. The data is updated weekly but contains largely monthly data, with historical records going back as far as 1992 for some countries.
Use Cases
Modeling food price inflation based on commodity price data mentioned in the description
Analyzing market integration and price volatility based on multi-market coverage
Forecasting staple food supply trends based on historical price time-series data
Strengths
Sourced from the authoritative World Food Programme Price Database
Covers a long temporal range, with data for some countries going back to 1992
Updated weekly, providing relatively recent data points
Limitations
Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment
Data contains largely monthly data despite weekly updates, which may limit granularity
Provenance
Source
WFP - World Food Programme
Collection Method
Sourced from the World Food Programme Price Database
Time Range
Historical data goes back as far as 1992 for a few countries
Freshness
Last updated 2026-03-22 14:52:07.101294
Geography
Vietnam
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