Question: The data presented in the Table below show the Price and Quantity of selected export commodities for years 2012 2015. Price and Quantity data for

The data presented in the Table below show the Price and Quantity of selected export commodities for years 2012 2015.

Price and Quantity data for a group of selected export commodities

2012

2013

2014

2015

Price ($)

Exports

(kg)

Price ($)

Exports

(kg)

Price ($)

Exports

(kg)

Price ($)

Exports

(kg)

ITEM

P12

Q12

P13

Q13

P14

Q14

P15

Q15

Group 1

Cement

30

318

32

355

35

466

44

370

Methanol

120

278

118

315

115

238

116

245

Rum

22

215

23

198

24

218

25

250

Cocoa

18

780

13

840

10

945

14

990

1a) Using the Price data for the years 2012 2015, calculate a Simple (Unweighted) Aggregative

Index.

1b) Construct a table showing a comparison of Simple (Unweighted) Average of Price Relatives for the years 2012 2015, calculate using

  1. the Arithmetic Mean of Price Relatives
  2. the Median of Price Relatives
  3. the Geometric Mean of Price Relatives.

1c) Construct Quantity Indices with Price as weights(show the Formulas and all computations) for the period 2012 2015 according to the following methods.

  1. Laspeyres Quantity Indices
  2. Paasche Quantity Indices
  3. Fisher Quantity Indices

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