Spending of Middle-Income Families / Emily H. Huntington.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Huntington, Emily H., Author.

Contributor:

Hawes, Mary H.

Oswalt, Esther

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (188 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2020

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, CA : University of California Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Chapter I. SCOPE AND METHOD

Chapter II. SUMMARY

Chapter III. FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS AND INCOME

Chapter IV. EXPENDITURES FOR FOOD AND ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGES

Chapter V. EXPENDITURES FOR HOUSING

Chapter VI. EXPENDITURES FOR HOUSEHOLD OPERATION

Chapter VII. EXPENDITURES FOR HOUSEFURNISHINGS

Chapter VIII. EXPENDITURES FOR CLOTHING

Chapter IX. EXPENDITURES FOR TRANSPORTATION

Chapter X. EXPENDITURES FOR MEDICAL AND DENTAL CARE

Chapter XI. EXPENDITURES FOR PERSONAL CARE

Chapter XII. EXPENDITURES FOR RECREATION

Chapter XIII. EXPENDITURES FOR EDUCATION, READING, TOBACCO, AND MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS

Chapter XIV. NONCONSUMPTION EXPENDITURES

Chapter XV. INSTALLMENT BUYING

Chapter XVI. CHANGES IN ASSETS AND LIABILITIES

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 28. Sep 2020)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9780520311909

0520311906

OCLC:

1198929228