Price Point Determination Questionnaire
1. How many people live in your home? Adults? Children?
2. How much money does your family earn each month?
3. What is the primary fuel source that your family uses to cook?
(A) Straw(B) Bamboo with cow manure
(C) Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG)(D) Other source
or Kerosene
Answer the following set of questions corresponding to the predominant source of cooking fuel used by the interviewed family?
(A) Straw
- How much straw is burned per month for cooking for your family?
- How is the straw acquired?
- Is the straw purchased?
- How much does the straw cost per unit volume or per unit weight?
- Is the straw gathered?
- If so, who gathers the straw?
- How long does it take to gather the straw?
(B) Bamboo with cow manure
- How much bamboo is burned per month for cooking for your family?
- How is the bamboo acquired?
- Is the bamboo purchased?
- How much bamboo does the straw cost per unit volume or per unit weight?
- Is the bamboo gathered?
- If so, who gathers the bamboo?
- How long does it take to gather the bamboo?
(C) LPG or Kerosene
- How much money is spent per month on LPG?
(D) Other fuel source
- What is this fuel source?
- Is the fuel source collected or bought?
- If the fuel source is collected...
- Who collects the fuel?
- How much time is spent collecting the fuel?
- If the fuel source is bought...
- How much is spent per month on this fuel source?
Lighting Demand
What form of lighting do you use most often in your home?
(A)Flashlight(B) Kerosene lamp
(C) Light bulb(D) Other source
Answer the questions corresponding to the predominant form of lighting used in a home for the family interviewed.
(A) Flashlight
- How much did it cost to buy your flashlight?
- How often do you buy batteries for your flashlight?
- How much do the batteries cost for your flashlight?
- How much time in hours each day do you use the flashlight?
(B) Kerosene lamp
- How much did it cost to buy your lamp?
- How often do you buy fuel for your lamp?
- How much fuel do you buy for your lamp?
- How much time each day in hours do you use the flashlight?
(C) Light bulb
- How many hours per day do you use the light bulbs?
- How much do you spend each month/week on lighting?
***Interview targets:
- Village outside of Dhaka with access to resources that is comparable to Baroipotol
- Interview 30 homes (try to make this as random as possible to interview an economic cross-section of the village)
Then we can produce something like this to show the usage based on income level. From this, we can find a price point for each income level.
Sample Results: