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Differences in Income and Expenditure of Urban, Rural-nonfarm and Rural-farm Families in USA
Alica Wertheimer Baletić
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This work has a character of a comparative analysis of the existing differences
in the level of income, quantity and structure of personal expenditure in urban,
rural-nonfarm and rural-farm families in USA in 1960. The authoress firstly
analyses differences in the level of income of these families, and as a basis of
comparison takes the »total (money + nomoney) income« per capita, and comes
to the conclusion that the total income per capita in urban family amounted 40.0%
more that the income per capita in rural-nonfarm family and 49.1% more than
the income per capita in rural-farm family. Differences in the apsolute amount of
particular items of expenditure, as well as differences of the share of particular
items in the total expenditure for personal consumption, are mostly expressed
between urban and rural-farm families. They are relatively the largest for the
items: »public transport«, »alcoholic beverages« and »rented flats« (index of difference
over 200), and considerably large for the group of expenses: »householdneeds«, »food out of home«, »recreation«, newspapers and periodicals«, »education«.
These are the items of expenditure which are more related to the urban way of life.
In the family budget of these three groups of families' the dominant place
have the next four items: food, housing, clothing and transport. The item »housing«
has relatively the largest share in the expenditure of urban and rural-nonfarm
families, while the food has still the largest share in the expenditure of rural-farm
families. The share of expenditure for clothing in rural-farm families is higher
than in other two groups of families, and the expenses for transport in all three
groups of families have taken the third place in family budgets.
The structure of expenditure in rural-nonfarm families has a character of
mixed structure of expenditure, and by its characteristics has become closer to
the structure of expenditure in urban families, which confirms the calculated index of similarity between the structure of expenditure.
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Hrčak ID:
118546
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Datum izdavanja:
27.12.1966.
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