APPENDIX 2 



COMMODITY PRICES AND INDEX 



The following alphabetical list of commodities 

 is included for convenience in reference. Most 

 items mentioned in the text are included in the 

 list, and the page numbers refer to discussions in 

 the text, both of prices and of consumption. These 

 references are not repeated in the general index. 



Prices of commodities in Guatemala City, where 

 they are available, are listed. These have three 

 sources, identified with asterisks, daggers, and 

 double daggers, respectively: 



* Memorias de Hacienda y Cridito Ptihlico for the yeara 

 1938, 1939, and 1940, tables 26, 38, and 57 on pages 597- 

 598, 699-702, and 728-730, respectively. These tables 

 give Guatemala City monthly prices of a few commodities 

 over a period of years; among the three are given prices for 

 the years 1935 to 1940, inclusive. In the following list 

 minimum, maximum, and average prices are recorded for 

 both the entire period of 6 years and 



(**) For the 1 year, 1936. 



(t) Tables 25, 37, and 56 on pages 596, 698, and 727 re- 

 spectively, of the same Memorias, give monthly prices of 

 "articles of first necessity" in Guatemala City for the year 



of the Memoria. In cases where these data are used in the 

 following list, the maximum, minimum, and average 

 prices are given for the 3 years 1938, 1939, and 1940 com- 

 bined. 



(J) The newspaper El Imparcial, Guatemala, at inter- 

 vals, usually weekly, from April 3, 1937 to August 21, 1937, 

 published current prices in the Central Market in Guate- 

 mala City. (The feature probably began before the initial 

 date mentioned, but issues of the newspaper before then 

 are not available to me; it was omitted after August 21, 

 although it may have been resumed later.) Since I have 

 records for only 5 months, obviously the "maximum" and 

 "minimum" figures given in the table are not necessarily 

 absolute for the year, and the average of the weekly figures 

 are not necessarily averages for the year. 



In the list are included some commodities with- 

 out their prices either in Panajachel or in Guate- 

 mala City. This is done so that most commodities 

 Ivnown to enter into the economy of Panajachel 

 may be found listed in one place. Commodities 

 that are not purchased, such as houses and the 

 products of the women's looms, are not, however, 

 included. 



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