THE EFFICIENCY OF STRUGGLE AGAINST SHEEP PRICE VOLATILITY IN DJELFA REGION IN ALGERIA

Abstract

The paper aimed at measuring the volatility of sheep price in real  pastoral market. It used a long-term empirical data (2003-2017), an Empirical orthogonal Functions analysis (EOF) and statistics. With cumulated variances of 57.89%, EOF divided the results into 3 batches according to linear coefficient of correlation of Pearson (r).