8 BULLETIN 1214, U. S. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. 
7. Advancement. 
Formal education. 
Tuition and lessons. 
Schoolbooks and supplies. 
Lodging, board, necessary travel, and sundries at school or college. 
Reading matter. 
Books other than schoolbooks. 
Papers and magazines. 
Music: Sheet music, music books, phonograph records, ete. 
Indoor games: Checkers, dominoes, etc. 
Apparatus and supplies for amateur scientific work: Photography, radio, etc. 
Physical recreation and sport: Athletic supplies, attendance at ball games, — 
etc. 
Church organizations, missions, and welfare work. 
Social and educational organizations: Clubs, lodges, fraternal orders, etc. 
Social gatherings: Dances, parties, picnics, fairs. 
Concerts, lectures, theaters, and amateur performances. 
Moving pictures. 
Vacation and other pleasure trips (costs include special trips by automobile 
or other means of travel not necessary for the business of the household, 
and food and lodging specially provided for such trips). 
8. Personal. 
Services of barber and hair dresser, etc. 
Candy, chewing gum, sodas. 
Gifts. 
Jewelry (costs include repairs). 
Tobacco, pipes, ete. 
Toilet articles. 
9. Savings. 
Life insurance. 
Savings accounts. 
Investments: Real estate, Government securities, bonds, etc. 
10. Government (taxes not charged to housing or farm business). 
11. Unclassified: Exceptional items, emergencies, etc. 
EXPENDITURES AND GOODS CONSUMED. 
In tabulating the summaries for the present report not all of the 
available data were included. The schedule had provided for many 
items that on closer analysis seemed merely enumerations, bearing 
no significant relation to one another and giving no definite measure 
for the standard of living. The only data finally included were 
those dealing with money values and such others as could be used in 
significant statistical comparisons with similar figures from other 
sources or with recognized standards of requirement. For example, — 
tabulations were made of farm facilities listed in the report of the 
Fourteenth Census of the United States;* of kinds and value of food 
consumed; and of the extent of formal education received by parents 
and children, because years of schooling represent fairly definite 
quantities of one type of goods described as advancement. 
The data obtained in the cost of goods consumed include not only 
sums paid for materials and labor but also the value of materials fur- 
a a by the farm, of gifts of clothing received, and of unpaid labor 
furnished by members of the household other than the homemaker. 
The value of her services is not included for the same reasons that 
the unpaid labor of the operator is not included in the costs of farm 
business. Fuel, which is frequently grouped with operating expenses, 
is here entered separately, because it is largely furnished by the farm. 
8 Selected farm expenses, cooperation, and farm facilities. W. L. Austin. U. S. Dept. Com., Bur. 
Census, 14th Census Repts., Vol. 5, p. 512-514. 1923. 
