Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Changes in the Cost of Living: July, 1914 July, 1919
National Industrial Conference Board. Research Report No. 17, Wartime Change: in the Cort of Living, fully, 1914 - March, 1919. -may, 1919.country. The United States Bureau of Labor Statistics' index numbers of retail prices of food were taken as the basis of the estimate regarding the cost of that item. As in previous reports, estimates as to changes in the cost of the separate items entering into the family budget were weighted and combined to obtain the increase in the cost of living as a whole.
Prices prevailing in 1914 were accepted as the base or starting point and changes since that time have, so far as possible, been calculated with reference to the mainte nance of the same standard of quality and quantity.
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