Variables

Meaning

Nature

AAEB

Average Amount of Electricity Bill;

XOF (monetary unit)

CPH

Cost Per Hour for VSEs;

XOF (monetary unit)

FTEE

Full-Time Equivalent Employee;

Numerical

HS

House size, the number of persons living in the house;

Numerical

NSE

Number of Sensitive Equipment;

Numerical

WTP

Willingness to Pay (additional amount by electricity bill) to avoid outages, it is the dependent variable, estimated by the average value;

XOF (monetary unit)

WTA

Respondent’s Willingness to Accept in compensation of abusive outages;

XOF (monetary unit)

WH

Working Hours;

hours

Satisfaction level

To describe how satisfied customers are. This variable can be used either for qualitative or quantitative analysis;

Numerical (1. 2. 3. 4. 5.)

Qualitative: 1. Not at all satisfied; 2. Not satisfied; 3. Indifferent; 4. Satisfied; 5. Very satisfied;

ETP

Endorsement to Pay;

Yes/No

TV Time

Time spent watching TV;

Hour (s)

Outage Impacts

Perishable goods; Production losses; delay in operations; Breakdown of essential equipment; others (education, security, disturbed, sleep, etc.); No consequence;

Yes/No

Disapproval arguments

Low income level; Price level; country’s potential; others [Price in neighboring countries, lack of trust vis-à-vis CIE]; the government should support costs.

Yes/No