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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STUTTGART. 479 The investigation extended to 39 townships, and the expenditure on these articles of food was estimated to be £4 7 s. 2d: (15*4 per cent.) per family more in 1906 than in 1901-1904. The advance in prices would appear to have affected Stuttgart more particularly in regard to meat. The Statistical Bureau has also published comparative retail prices of meat, obtained from over 50 towns, during the years 1901-1906, and the following fluctuations were shown by those for Stuttgart, which were throughout higher than the average prices for the whole country :— Retail Prices per lb. in Stuttgart. Year. 1901 1902 1903 1904 1905 1906 Ox beef. d. 8 8 8 it Cow beef. d. 7 I 8 8* Veal. d. 8 8* 1 Pork. d. 8 1 Mutton. d. ; 7 n It will be noticed that a rise is shown in pork in 1906, whereas the returns obtained by the investigator in July, 1906, showed a fall. The apparent dis crepancy is explained by the fact that the figures of the State Statistical Bureau are yearly averages. The market prices collected by the Stuttgart Municipal Statistical Office show that the price of pork fell in May of that year from 9^d. to 8|<i. per lb., but advanced again in September to 9Jd., the average for the year being 9d. Representing prices at Berlin by 100, the corresponding figures for Stuttgart are 107 for meat and 102 for other food, the result of combining these two figures, due regard being paid to their relative importance, being 103. The high price of fuel, however, with its index-number of 137, has the effect of raising the general prices index-number to 108, a figure which is exceeded by only three of the towns included in the present inquiry. Combining this high prices index-number with the exceptionally high index-number for rents, a resultant index-number amounting to 106 is obtained, which would indicate that the cost of living at Stuttgart is decidedly greater than in any other of the towns investigated. No other town has an index-number greater than 100, the figure which represents the cost of living in Berlin and in Mannheim.

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