 | Massachusetts - Massachusetts - 1875 - 946 pages
...lodging, ov rent, and for fuel and light, is invariably the same, whatever the income. fourth. That as the income increases in amount, the percentage of outlay for " sundries " becomes greater. This doctrine of the average percentages of expenditure is confirmed by inquiries instituted by Ducpetiaux... | |
 | 1892 - 976 pages
...lodging or rent and for fuel and light is invariably the same, whatever the income 4th. That as the income increases in amount the percentage of outlay for "sundries" becomes greater. Under Dr. Engel's statistics it was shown that in a family living on about $500 a year the expenditures... | |
 | Agriculture - 1923 - 1124 pages
...lodging, or rent, and for fuel and light, is invariably the same, whatever the income. Four. That as the income increases in amount, the percentage of outlay for " sundries " becomes greater. A much more intensive method for studying family living conditions and living costs is the monographic... | |
 | Richard Theodore Ely - Economics - 1889 - 398 pages
...or rent, and for fuel and light, is invariably the same, whatever the income. " Fourth. That as the income increases in amount the percentage of outlay for sundries becomes greater." MASSACHUSETTS.—PERCENTAGE OK EXPENDITURES—AMOUNT, »754 42. COMPARATIVE PERCENTAGES OF EXPENDITURES... | |
 | American Economic Association - Economic history - 1893 - 690 pages
...lodging or rent and for fuel and light is invariably the same, whatever the income. Fourth. — As the income increases in amount, the percentage of outlay for sundries becomes greater. The following table shows the comparative percentages of expenditures in the United States and in Europe:... | |
 | Richard Theodore Ely - Economics - 1893 - 374 pages
...typical families could enable us to predict the coming of industrial storms. 245 " Fourth. That as the income increases in amount the percentage of outlay for sundries becomes greater." MASSACHUSETTS.— PERCENTAGES OF EXPENDITURES.— AMOUNT, $754.42. COMPARATIVE PERCENTAGES OF EXPENDITURES... | |
 | Michigan. Legislature - Michigan - 1893 - 1418 pages
...or rent, and for fuel and light, is invariably the same, whatever the income;" Fourth, " That as the income increases in amount, the percentage of outlay for "sundries" becomes greater." TABLE 875.— Percentage comparisons. PERCENTAGES OF EXPENDITUBES, MICHIGAN, 1892. TABLE 874.— Engel's... | |
 | Richard Theodore Ely - Economics - 1893 - 456 pages
...5.0 10 50 3.5 2.0 2.0 2 5 10.0 * 5.0 5.5' 3.0 3.0 3 5 |- 15 0 100.0 100.0 100.0 " Fourth. That as the income increases in amount the percentage of outlay for sundries becomes greater." MASSACHUSETTS.— PERCENTAGES OF EXPENDITURES.— AMOUNT, $754.42. COMPARATIVE PERCENTAGES OF EXPENDITURES... | |
 | Edward Everett Hale - Conduct of life - 1900 - 422 pages
...invariably the same, whatever the income. It is, in fact, 12 per cent of the income. Fourth. That as the income increases in amount the percentage of outlay for sundries becomes greater. Engel found that a German workman who earned $225 a year, a man of his intermediate class whose income... | |
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That the percentage of outlay for clothing i,s approximately the same, whatever the income. Third. 
