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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KÖNIGSHÜTTE. 299 In the reports on most of the other towns investigated, it has been possible to compare the average meat consumption per head of the working-class population with that of the whole population of the town, and it has generally appeared that among the former only about half as much meat was eaten as among the latter. This comparison cannot be made for Königshütte owing to the incompleteness of the data as to net imports of dead meat for local consumption. If the comparison were possible it would probably show the two figures to be practically identical, for almost the whole of the population of the town is working-class. Prices, like rent and wages, are very low in Königshütte, the general level of prices of meat, of other food and of coal being lower than in any other of the towns investigated. Taking prices in Berlin as 100, the index number for the prices of meat in Königshütte is 94 ; for other food, 90 ; for coal, 51 ; and for all commodities, 86, as compared with 95 in Breslau, the town having the next lowest index numbers. Combining this index number with that for rent, a result of 78 is obtained, which would indicate that the cost of living in Königshütte is very much lower than in any other towns included in the present inquiry. 29088 2 P 2

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