108 COST OF LIVING IN THE UNITED STATES
was the case under pre-war conditions. Translated into
weights by means of which to give increased prices their
relative importance in estimating the increase in the cost
of living as a whole, it is possible that the effect of multiplying
heaviest weights by largest increases and lightest weights by
smallest increases was to exaggerate the increase in the total
cost of living as contrasted with a total made up of pre-war
weights and the same increases.
TaBLE 6: INDEx NumBERrs oF THE CosT oF LIVING IN THE
Unitep States, Using WEeicHTs Basep on 1918 Con-
suMPTION, AND WEIGHTS Basep ox 1913 Consumep-
TION, AND THE SaME INcrEases IN CosT oF
THE SEPARATE ITEMS?
Jate
Basic weight, 1918......
Basic weight. 1913... ..
Average,
december,
december,
december,
december,
Jecember,
une,
Yecember,
‘une,
december,
ay,
September,
December,
March,
lune,
September,
December,
March,
June,
September,
December,
March,
June,
September,
December,
June,
December.
a
of
.«
A
[QE
Food
Cloth-
| ing
Hous-
ing
Fuel
and
Light
38.2! 16.6
16.6' 13.4
52
2431 13.6
206! 6.0
100.0
105.0
105.0
126.0
157.0
187.0
184.0
197.0
119.0
78.0
44.7
153.1
149.9
"38.7
41.0
239.8
46.6
42.0
44.3
19.3
50.3
43.7
2.4
TQ
100.0
101.0
104.7
120.0
149.1
205.3
214.5
268.7
287.5
258.5
222.6
192.1
184.4
175.5
172.3
171.3
171.5
174.4
174.9
176.5
176.3
175.8
174.2
L792
717
170.
160 4
100.0
100.0
101.5
102.3
100.1
109.2
114.2
125.3
134.9
151.1
159.0
160.0
161.4
160.9
160.9
161.1
161.9
162.4
163.4
164.4
166.5
167.0
16R.0
Le
100.0
101.0
101.0
108.4
124.1
147.9
145.6
156.8
171.9
194.9
181.6
180.7
181.1
173.8
174.2
183.6
186.4
186.2
180.6
181.3
1840
18% ©
5
vd
ASS
167
1R6.9
Furni-
ture
and
Furn-
ishings
51
40
100.0
104.0
110.6
127.8
150.6
213.6
225.1
263.5
292.7
285.4
247.7
224.7
218.0
206.2
202.9
202.9
208.2
217.4
222.2
2224
2224
25"
7
94
Mis-
cella-
neous
21.3
91 ®
100.0
103.0
107.4
113.3
140.5
165.8
173.2
190.2
201.4
208.2
208.8
207.8
206.8
203.3
201.5
201.1
200.5
200.3
200.2
201.1
2
3
203.
All
Items,
1918
Weights
100.0
100.0
103.0
105.1
118.3
142.4
174.4
177.3
199.3
216.5
200.4
180.4
177.3
174.3
166.9
166.6
166.3
169.5
168.8
169.7
172.1
73.2
704
1
5
3
5
177 0
Al
Items,
1913
Weights
100.0
100.0
102.7
104.7
116.6
138.4
167.6
170.8
190.8
207.3
195.2
178.4
176.1
173.8
167.1
166.8
166.8
169.6
168.8
169.7
172.1
173.1
170.6
169.7
171.0
172.7
173.6
177.8
_ # The figures in this table are those of the United States Bureau of Labor Sta-
tistics or were constructed from their figures, as described in the text,