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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\ xlvii (a) Ratios of the quantities of certain articles of food consumed hy workmen's families in Germany, possessing certain incomes, to the quantities of the same articles consumed by working men's families in the United Kingdom with corresponding incomes. (Quantities in U.K. = 100.) Limits of Weekly Income. Bread and flour Meat and fish* Eggs Fresh milk ... Cheese Animal tatst Potatoes Sugar 25s. and under 30s. 30s. and : under 35s. 84 88 106 159 66 113 151 42 89 90 90 130 78 115 148 41 35s. and under 40s. 99 95 97 140 78 120 155 41 * Including an allowance for weight of fish in Germany and for weight of other meat and fish in the United Kingdom. See explanation below, t Butter, margarine, lard, suet, and dripping. (6) Ratios of the amounts spent on certain articles of food consumed by work men's families in Germany, possessing certain incomes, to the amounts spent on the same articles by working men's families in the United Kingdom with corresponding incomes. (Expenditure in the U.K. = 100.) Limits of Weekly Income. Bread and flour Meat and fish Eggs ... Fresh milk ... Cheese Animal fatsf Potatoes Vegetables and fruit Farinaceous foods (other than bread and flour). Tea, coffee, cocoa, &c. Sugar ... ... ... ... 25s. and under 30s. 30s. and under 35s. 87 103 88 132 68 115 105 114 85 66 47 92 100 77 110 75 112 100 93 71 65 47 35s. and under 40s. 102 105 79 118 88 117 115 87 83 67 47 t Butter, margarine, lard, suet, and dripping. The quantities of bread and flour consumed in Germany are from 10 to 16 per cent, less in Germany than in England in the case of the families wdth incomes of 25s. hut under 30s., and of 30s. but under 35s., though for the families with incomes of 35s. to 40s. the consumption is much the same. Owing to the price of grey bread in Germany being higher than that ot white bread in England, the expenditure of families with the higher incomes on bread and flour is even slightly higher in Germany than in England. As regards meat and fish, the German expenditure exceeds the English by less than 1 per cent, in the case of the families with incomes of 30 to 35 shillings, and in the lower and higher income classes the excess is only 3 to 5 per cent. A comparison of quantities offers some difficulty, for practically all the meat is bought by weight in Germany, while in England some 18 per cent, of the money spent on meat and fish is expended on “ meat not bought by weight," such as the miscellaneous items mentioned on the last page. In the above Table (a) a proportionate allowance has been made for the weight of " other meat and fish " in the United Kingdom budgets, on the basis of the expenditure, and a similar small allowance for the consumption of fish in Germany. The results are no doubt very rough, but probably sufficiently accurate for present purposes ; and it appears that the weight of meat consumed in Germany is about 12 per cent.

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