Cost of living in German towns

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Identifikator:: 866449027

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-93831

Document type:: Monograph

Title:: Cost of living in German towns

Place of publication:: London

Publisher:: Stat. Off.

Year of publication:: 1908

Scope:: 1 Online-Ressource (LXI, 548 Seiten)

Collection:: Economics Books

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XIX The next Table shows the distribution of the Budgets according to family incomes :— Amount of Weekly Income per Family. Number of Budgets. Under 20s. 20s. and under 25s. 25s. „ 30s. 30s. „ 35s. 35s. „ 40s. 40s. and over ... 193 872 1,329 1,223 692 737 With regard to the statistics of families with the higher ranges of income it must be remembered that the amount of the family income is often due to the supplementary earnings of the wife or of children living at home, rather than to the high earnings of the head of the family. This is particularly the case where the income amounts to 40s. a week or more ; as will be seen from the next Table the average number of children living at home was, in the families of this class, much higher than the average number for all the families from which budgets were obtained. The next Table shows the average family income in each class, and the average amount contributed thereto by the husband, wife, and children respectively. Limits of Family Income. Under 20«. 20a. and under 25s. 25«. and under 30«. 30«. and under 35«. 35«. and under 40«. 40«. and over. Average number of children living at home ... Average family income :— Husband W" if e ... ... ... ... Children ... Total 237 s. d. 16 104 0 8# 0 02 2-28 s. d. 21 7 o 114 0 2 2 51 s. d. 25 3& 4| 251 s. d. 29 04 1 114 o 104 17 7f 22 84 27 1 31 104 2-79 s. d. 32 04 2 8 1 114 36 8 3 76 s. d. 33 24 2 12 94 84 48 84 It appears, then, that the contribution to the family income by members living at home, other than the head, amounts in the highest income group to nearly 32 per cent., whereas in no other group does it exceed 13 per cent. It is obvious that such families, with a more than normal number of wage earners, and usually, therefore, with older children, will have a more than average consumption of food. The following Table shows the general results of the enquiry. It gives the average, for each income-class, of the receipts and detailed expenditure upon food during a representative week by the working-class families to which the returns relate, and also the quantities of the various commodities consumed. All children living at home, whatever their age, have been included, but returns in which lodgers appeared have been excluded. c 2 29088

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