This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ...Report No. 7, March, 1920). None of these studies, however, can compare with the Beyer standard for accuracy, as it is on a commodity basis throughout, and has all its items most carefully sifted. As a bare subsistence minimum (for which it was not originally intended) the Beyer standard is perhaps somewhat full, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1921 Excerpt: ...Report No. 7, March, 1920). None of these studies, however, can compare with the Beyer standard for accuracy, as it is on a commodity basis throughout, and has all its items most carefully sifted. As a bare subsistence minimum (for which it was not originally intended) the Beyer standard is perhaps somewhat full, particularly as regards housing; by arbitrarily deducting about 3 per cent or so, we shall however make it quite safely conservative for our purposes, thus fixing the total at December, 1920, prices at about $1792. On the assumption that the decrease between August, 1920, and March, 1921, was evenly distributed. The rest of the budget in August, 1920, was $1988; in March, 1921, $1742. Citizens Business, No. 463, p. 4. The amounts of money allowed for the various objects, as has been said, have been scaled down 3 per cent. The proportions however remain unchanged. This percentage distribution corresponds to the actual distribution of miscellaneous items by the 255 self-supporting families studied by the Philadelphia Bureau: the standard budget merely dealt with these items en masse (see pp. 16, 19, 82, and 85, and also pp. 38-46). Since these actual families averaged about 15 per cent below the standard budget in total income, it is highly probable that their miscellaneous column may be at or below the true "subsistence" level: Their charitable contributions may well appear smaller than they should. about one-half of one per cent. However, as compared with the less than one and one-half per cent (about $23) expended for all forms of recreation and amusement for a year by this family of five persons, the sacrifice it represents cannot be small. If we add to this item the "gifts of friendship," which the Philadelphia study gives,7 ...
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