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What readers paid
Official figures tell you the average. This page tells you what people like you actually paid this month: for maize flour, sugar, cooking gas, fuel, fares and rent, and the rates their banks, SACCOs and loan apps pay and charge. Every figure is the middle of at least 3 reports from different readers in the last 30 days.
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The middle, not the average
We show the median — the figure in the middle — and the range the middle half of readers paid, so one very high or very low report cannot move it. Figures more than three times away from the middle are left out.
Reported by readers, not checked receipts
These are what readers tell us, not official statistics. We keep one figure per reader per item each day, and the desk removes any that are plainly wrong.
Never one person’s figure
We never publish a single report, a reader’s town, or any contact details. Please don’t name a shop, bank or person in a report.
Reader reports, compiled by Afronomics; information, not advice. For the official figures, see inflation by country, where the shilling earns most and central-bank rates.
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