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,