FAMILY LIVING IN FARM HOMES. 23 
MAINTENANCE OF HEALTH, 
To analyze expenditures for health, the membership of the house- 
hold was reduced to an adult-equivalent basis by the use of the figures 
suggested by Bowley (p.22). It appeared that sex had no influence; 
that, for children between 15 and 20 years of age, the cost of main- 
taining health was about two-thirds that for adults; that for children 
between 6 and 14 it was about equal to that for adults; and that for 
those under 6 it was about one-third more. The following scale was 
therefore adopted to determine the household-size index for the cost 
of maintaining health: 
oo Latics oo Sapet ic Serge SR gsc 2 Saab a la Ai ge ached ep pede 1.0 
Seaki eto 20 years Of age..- 2.222: 2 JIPLE SA On BY 5 
MuemlEp OI Yeats OF APG 2 2a 22 ss 2 Rl ee 1.0 
iidaangcr 6. Veard Ol ave..co% s<- ~\sami y- 3 2gant oie ee eee eth - 1.3 
ADVANCEMENT. 
The records give no indication that the expenditures for advance- 
ment were affected by sex. Considering the expenditure for operator 
or home maker as equivalent to one unit, it was found that each ad- 
ditional adult increased expenditure for this purpose by five-tenths, 
each child between 15 and 20 years of age increased it slightly more, 
each child between 6 and 15 slightly less, and children under 6 years 
not at all. The following scale was therefore adopted to determine 
_ the household-size index for advancement: 
oe HEISE, - Set - _ = get Es ee es Pe ae, ala age ne ee ng 
ree Rae Be orate et 5 Se ls Skee oS L ~ - se- 2 etek gee 1.0 
LST SE ERS Ps Ee a ge a5) 
WRENNER RIVERS A, AOC 2S 2 eos Sle ote ee ee es om = 0 
Mummatumts A yeaTawgs aces. 22285022 oe eect bee .4 
med rRIOUIG MEATS OL AOC! 2 Gs. estes eC. es ate 0 
PERSONAL EXPENSES. 
The expenditures for items grouped as “‘ Personal” were found to 
average about one-third less for women than for men. For boys from 
6 to 21 years of age, the figures averaged about half as large as those 
for men, and for girls of the same age about one-fourth. Children 
less than 6 years old apparently caused no increase in these expendi- 
tures. The following scale was therefore adopted in determining 
_ the household-size index for personal expenses: 
SRNR IEEEOR | 51S Betaters Geees tPA? 4 838 IME A a Se SL oo oS 1.0 
imeem Aas es. Ol. Gt Bw. BUD oe oli dlel aE 
DP OiptLOLAO WV CATS Of, OSC a sec) «dic cclgtoreus tau os. fh eee eon. so 
Deve De ULV CALS ORASC Arend a Be we Stes Poa mos lee o wee we ae 
Child under 6 years of 5 9 a gt noe: ane tel nen par pen 0 
UNCLASSIFIED. 
The expenditures grouped as ‘‘ Unclassified”’ did not appear to be 
influenced by age or sex. Considering the expenditure for the 
operator or the home maker as equivalent to one unit, each additional 
individual appeared to increase the expenditures for this purpose by 
about five-tenths. Therefore, determining the household-size index 
for the cost of incidentals, the operator and home maker were each 
weighted as 1 and each additional member of the family as 0.5. 
