TABLE NUMBER XXVIIIDetailed Budget Study of Fifteen Families Including the Income and Expenditures for Seven Consecutive Days During the Month of September, 1917.No.in FamilyFamily IncomeFoodClothing and Householdex. and carfareRents Per WeekChurchMedicineLuxuriesInsurance4$25.25$4.67$2.85$3.25....$0.86$0.20....315.007.911.202.40.....50.05....418.0010.988.662.50.....40....$0.45328.506.389.292.50$1.102.45.30....217.003.7719.602.10................318.0010.254.052.00.........33.72321.007.35.303.50........2.10....218.004.078.023.75.....25.20....523.1012.786.242.75........1.601.50318.504.1226.652.00................215.008.431.244.25.........05....216.509.51....3.00.........20.80318.006.101.074.00....1.00........517.0013.173.003.00.....051.75.25514.007.872.486.00.60.........65
TABLE NUMBER XXVIII
Detailed Budget Study of Fifteen Families Including the Income and Expenditures for Seven Consecutive Days During the Month of September, 1917.
Table number XXVIIIis a study of the budgets of fifteen migrant families for seven consecutive days. The income includes the earnings of both husband and wife. The figures on the expenditures are approximately correct, although it was possible that in some families there were no big food expenditures the first day, and in other families food might have been left over after the seventh day.
The wide variation in the expenditures of these families on all the necessary articles is significant, and is probably indicative and typical of the maladjusted life and the diversity of the living conditions of the migrants. The wide variety of food expenditures is due primarily to the inordinate expenditures for meat, which in one or two instances reached over eight dollars per week. This is typical of the lack of balance of the diet.
The few cases of disproportionate expenditures on household goods were made by migrants who had bought some furniture for their new quarters. It is interesting to note, however, that these families were compelled to skimpon their food, as their food bills are the lowest. Under luxuries we included all expenditures on tobacco, liquor, candy and the like. The few cases of considerable expenditures in this column are due largely to the liquor bills. The little use of these articles in most families is apparent from the table. The table as a whole, also, indicates the high cost of the living necessities of these migrants in Pittsburgh and their comparatively low wages.