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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. 
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