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BULLETIN" 1466 ? U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE 
Comparisons of the distribution of the value of goods among the 
most important groups of goods by steps of increase in the total value 
or cost of living for three groups of families considered above may 
be made from Table 11. 
Table 11. — Distribution of average value or cost of the goods of family living 
among the most important groups of goods by steps of increase in the value 
of family living or income; 2,886 farm families of selected localities in 11 
States, in comparison with workingmen's families studied by the Department 
of Labor, 
2,885 Farm Families of Selected Localities in 11 States, 1922-1924 
Families 
Size of 
house- 
hold 
Value or cost of family living 
Value of living or income group 
Average 
value 
Proportion of total for- 
Food 
Clothing 
Rent 
All other 
Below $600- _ 
Number 
58 
280 
579 
614 
492 
332 
196 
116 
83 
136 
Persons 
3.3 
3.6 
4.0 
4.5 
5.1 
5.3 
5.9 
6.0 
6.5 
7.0 
Dollars 
486 
779 
1,055 
1,339 
1,639 
1,932 
2,240 
2,529 
2,854 
3,779 
Per cent 
54.4 
52.1 
47.6 
45.3 
43.0 
39.8 
37.2 
36.2 
33.6 
30.7 
Per cent 
11.6 
11.9 
12.6 
13.8 
Per cent 
12.5 
11.6 
13.0 
12.7 
Per cent 
21.5 
$600-$899_._ 
24.4 
$900-$1,199 
26.8 
$1,200-$1,499 
28.2 
$1,500-$1,799_. 
15.1 
12.2 
29.7 
$1,800-$2,099 
15.4 
15.8 
15.5 
16.0 
16.4 
13.5 
12.6 
12.3 
13.1 
10.9 
31.3 
$2,100-$2,399 . 
34.4 
$2,400-82,699.. 
36.0 
$2,700-$2,999.. _ . 
37.3 
$3,000 and over.. 
42.0 
Total 
2,886 
4.S 
1,598 
41.2 
14.7 
12.5 
31.6 
12,096 "Workingmen's Families of 92 Industrlal Centers, 1918 : 
Below $900 2 
$900-$1,199 _ . . 
332 
2,423 
3,959 
2,730 
1,594 
705 
353 
4.3 
4.5 
4.7 
5.0 
5.2 
5.7 
6.4 
843 
1,076 
1,301 
1, 537 
1,756 
2,055 
2,467 
44.1 
42.4 
39.6 
37.2 
35.7 
34.6 
34.9 
13.2 
14.5 
15.9 
16.7 
17.5 
18.7 
20.4 
s 14.5 
* 13.9 
6 13.8 
6 13.5 
7 13.2 
8 12.1 
8 10.6 
28.2 
29.1 
$1,200-$1,499 
30.6 
$1,500-$1,799 
32.5 
$l,800-$2,099 
33.5 
$2,100-$2,499 _ 
34.5 
$2,500 and over... 
34.2 
Total 
12, 096 
4.9 
1,434 
38.2 
18.6 
1° 13. 4 
31.7 
11,156 Workingmen's Families of 33 Industrial Centers, 1902 » 
Below $200 2 . 
32 
115 
545 
1,676 
2,264 
2,336 
2,094 
806 
684 
340 
96 
168 
196 
312 
389 
466 
540 
612 
693 
771 
816 
900 
973 
1,052 
50.8 
47.3 
48.1 
46.9 
46.2 
43.4 
41.4 
41.4 
39.9 
38.8 
37.7 
36.5 
8.7 
8.7 
10.0 
11.4 
12.0 
12.9 
13.5 
13.6 
14.4 
15.1 
14.9 
15.7 
16.9 
18.0 
18.7 
18.6 
18.4 
18.5 
18.2 
17.1 
17.6 
17.5 
16.6 
17.4 
23.6 
$200-$299_ . -___ 
26.0 
$300-$399 . 
23.2 
$400-$499 
23.1 
$500-$599__. 
23.4 
$600-$699 _ 
25.2 
$700-$799._. 
26.9 
$800-$899_ ._ 
27.9 
$900-$999 _ 
28.1 
$1,000-$1,099. 
28.6 
$1,100-$1,199 
30.8 
$1,200 and over 
30.4 
Total 
11, 156 
124.O 
618 
43.1 
13.0 
IS. 1 
25.8 
1 Cost of Living in the United States, U. S. Dept. Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Monthly Labor 
Review, vol. 9, No. 2. 
2 Income rather than value or cost of living groups. Average cost of living falls outside of these groups 
in several instances owing to deficit or surplus reported by a number of families. 
2 Not including 1 family in which rent is combined with fuel and light. 
4 Not including 44 families in which rent is combined with fuel and light. 
6 Not including 91 families in which rent is combined with fuel and light. 
6 Not including 78 families in which rent is combined with fuel and light. 
7 Not including 51 families in which rent is combined with fuel and light. 
8 Not including 21 families in which rent is combined with fuel and light. 
8 Not including 9 families in which rent is combined with fuel and light. 
10 Not including 295 families in which rent is combined with fuel and light. 
11 Cost of living and prices of retail food, Eighteenth Annual Beport of the Commissioner of Labor, (1903). 
12 Average size of 11,156 "normal" families: A"normal" family being defined as one with a husband at 
work; a wife, not more than 5 children, none over 14 years of age; no boarders, lodgers, or other persons in- 
cluded in the household. 
