Spending of Middle-Income Families
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Spending of Middle-Income Families

Incomes and Expenditures of Salaried Workers in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1950

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Spending of Middle-Income Families

Incomes and Expenditures of Salaried Workers in the San Francisco Bay Area in 1950

About this book

Most previous investigations of family expenditures have dealt either with families of wage earners or with all families without differentiation. This Heller Committee study centers on white-collar families in which the chief breadwinners were employed in salaried occupations with earnings between $4800 and $7500--a group about whose spending habits little has previously been known. The author analyzes the expenditures of 159 San Francisco Bay Area families. The reader will find not only the sums spent for each general category of expenditure but also the kinds of goods purchased; for example, information is included on ownership and rental of homes, purchase of new and second-hand automobiles, and types of household equipment purchased. Similar details will be found for each category of expenditure, and for the use of installment purchasing. In addition, non-consumption expenditures, mainly provisions for insurance and retirement, are set forth in considerable detail. The study also includes a comparison of the economic behavior of these middle-income families with that revealed in a 1950 Bureau of Labor Statistics Bay Area survey of families with lower incomes. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1957.

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Information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2023
Print ISBN
9780520307261
eBook ISBN
9780520311909
Edition
1
Topic
Economics
Subtopic
Economic Theory
Index
Economics

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. CONTENTS 1
  5. Chapter I SCOPE AND METHOD
  6. Chapter II SUMMARY
  7. Chapter III FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS AND INCOME
  8. Chapter IV EXPENDITURES FOR FOOD AND ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES
  9. Chapter V EXPENDITURES FOR HOUSING
  10. Chapter VI EXPENDITURES FOR HOUSEHOLD OPERATION
  11. Chapter VII EXPENDITURES FOR HOUSEFURNISHINGS
  12. Chapter VIII EXPENDITURES FOR CLOTHING
  13. Chapter IX EXPENDITURES FOR TRANSPORTATION
  14. Chapter X EXPENDITURES FOR MEDICAL AND DENTAL CARE
  15. Chapter XI EXPENDITURES FOR PERSONAL CARE
  16. Chapter XII EXPENDITURES FOR RECREATION
  17. Chapter XIII EXPENDITURES FOR EDUCATION, READING, TOBACCO, AND MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS
  18. Chapter XIV NONCONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES
  19. Chapter XV INSTALLMENT BUYING
  20. Chapter XVI CHANGES IN ASSETS AND LIABILITIES