CONSUMER PREFERENCES IN PURCHASE OF MEAT 7 
REPLIES TO QUESTIONS 
Question 1. — (a) How many persons in your family (other than servants)? 
(6) How many servants eating two or more meals daily? (Table 1.) 
In compiling the replies to this question, no distinction was made 
between members of natural families and any servants who might be 
employed in the household, since it was the experience of the house- 
hold which was of first interest. The portions of the meat consump- 
tion attributable to the natural family members and to the servants 
could not be determined, and it was necessary to include the total 
number of persons composing the household. 
The total number of persons reached by the survey is shown in 
Table 1 by group and class divisions. A total of 20,744 persons 
comprised the 4,466 households whose housewives were interviewed. 
Of this total, 13,369 were of the American white group. Within 
this group, 3,654 persons were in the 751 households of the poor class, 
3,177 in the 782 middle-class households, 3,354 in the 796 well-to-do 
households, and 3,184 in the 583 wealthy households. 
In the colored group, 805 persons composed the 203 households 
of the poor class, and 818 persons made up the membership of the 197 
middle-class households. A total of 1,623 persons were in the 400 
households of this group. 
One thousand one hundred and fifty -four households of the foreign 
group were visited. The number of persons composing these house- 
holds was 5,752. The size of the foreign groups varied considerably. 
In order of total number of persons in each group the array of the 
group was as follows: Italian, 1,583 persons in 276 households; Polish, 
1,057 persons in 195 households; German, 768 persons in 175 house- 
holds; Scandinavian, 625 persons in 150 households; Jewish, 534 
persons in 113 households; English, 413 persons in 100 households; 
Russian, 308 persons in 50 households; French, 256 persons in 50 
households; Finnish, 208 persons in 45 households. 
The distribution by cities of the households visited is indicated in 
Table 2. 
Considerable variation among the groups and classes was observed 
in the size of household. The average number of persons per house- 
hold for the American white group was 4.6. Of this group the wealthy 
class households had an average membership of 5.5 persons, the largest 
average in the four classes composing the group. The large number of 
persons found for the wealthy group was occasioned by the number 
of servants. In the middle and well-to-do classes the difference 
in the average number per household was slight, the middle class 
averaging 4.1 and the well-to-do class 4.2. 
For the colored group the average size of household was 4.1 persons. 
The poor class averaged 4 persons to the household, while the average 
middle-class household consisted of 4.2 people. The average number 
of persons in the middle-class household of the colored group thus 
closely approximated the average size of household in the same class 
in the American white group, which averaged 4.1 persons. The poor 
class of the colored group averaged 0.9 person less than the corre- 
sponding class in the American white group. 
In the foreign group the general average was 5 persons to the 
household. Considerable variation was found among the averages 
of the nine nationalities composing this group. When the several 
