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FAMILY LIVING IN FARM HOMES. 21 
over, personal efficiency in buying and preparing food and the more 
economical utilization possible in oe families may affect the cost 
without affecting the nutritive value of the diet. These dietary factors 
have, nevertheless, sometimes been applied to the cost of food and 
are considered by some students to give better results than the units 
of comparison previously quoted. A recent interesting attempt to 
adapt these factors to the cost of food and also to other items of 
expenditure is that made by Sydenstricker and King in their studies 
of conditions of living in Southern mill towns.” The scale used in 
determining the household-size index for food in the present study 
is made up of the dietary factors slightly modified to adapt them 
_ to the special conditions of the study, and 1s as follows: 
Man or boy 15 years of age or over: 
ie mnemeraic wore: £4. bec e sist hi Sissel: ea seen git: i 
EAT cc is Soe ee ee Ss ee ee es ra ee 1. 
fe DEER SPF ae? 0) (0 Ps a 
Woman or girl 17 years of age or over: 
Pa emerorate Worere!! ItOLL OE sou ase: Moire tae Ge 
PPRmrOUWOUKR 1). f2-735 i rtiesepe8 22. setae loa yack 1. 
Meas GE GTI Old APC 37.50% hn. dere oa ye js 42 tay nd aie 
Average male over 15 years of age or female over 17 years of age.. 1. 
SnREMRY CAPRI ACE. eal. fae cece of - atte ae ob ee 
peas to yearso1ave (5 2) TICLE. Ob OF ES IOL EL 
Boy 10 to 12 years of age or girl 10 to 15 years of age.....-..-...-.- 
Reape eretll 6710.9 y cara Ol AGO) Lise a Sore ahaa) =m coo Saye tes or 3 os 
Pree PIE 7. 6 0 VEalh OUBUO! sc. 2e oo alo = gs wk ge ew seis a nln eee 
Hoy ereitl elow 2 years Of ave: +. 7-2-2032 ke 
WwW O1G> SIO CH 100 ono 
CLOTHING. 
No factors comparable to those used in the scale for food have been 
worked out for clothing or indeed for any-.other group of needs. 
One reason for this is that, while dietary needs can be somewhat 
definitely measured in physiological terms, the others depend largely 
on more general considerations, some of them as intangible as social 
and aesthetic values. In attempting to work out the relative needs 
of different individuals in the present study, it was therefore neces- 
_ sary to start with the information provided on the schedules them- 
selves. In studying the expenditures for clothing, the records were 
sorted according to the number, age, and sex of the members of the 
family. It was found that for persons of the same age, sex made 
not enough difference in the cost of clothing to justify the computa- 
tion of a separate scale of units for each sex. The following scale 
was used in determining the household-size index for cost consump- 
tion of clothing. 
ee eS IE oe hee oo soe ce 
TRB 2 Far at ts. Set oe aE DOSS oP eS 
Other person over 16 years of age... ....-2.:.-.2.52.--+-------- 
ere Bs VEATS OL BOC 55 oe Sa le ern pe ee dha wd elton ys 
Pee 1o.F 4 -V CATH OF APO... -b cette se ke ee pe cen eet eee 
Baer ee 
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20 A Method of Pasty ing Families according to Incomes in Studies of Disease Prevalence. E. Syden- 
ee oes I. King. U.S. Treas. Dept., Pub. Health Serv. Pub. Health Repts., Vol. 35, No. 48, p. 
29-2846. 1920. 
