Average Clothing Expenditures of 86 Farm Families of Franklin County, Vermont During 1923-24: A Preliminary Report
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Average Clothing Expenditures of 86 Farm Families of Franklin County, Vermont During 1923-24: A Preliminary Report
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1927
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The analysis of clothing expenditures of 85 farm families of Enosburg Township, Franklin County, Vermont, for the year ending June 1, 1924, is presented in this preliminary report. This study is included in. a larger study of clothing expenditures of 2,459 farm families which is being made by the Bureau of Home Economics of the United States Department of Agriculture.
The clothing schedules from which the data were obtained were collected as part of a study of the standards of living of approximately 4,000 farm families, conducted jointly by the Bureaus of Agricultural Economics and of Home Economics of the United States Department of Agriculture. A report of the standard of living of 2836 of these farm families has been issued.
The data for Vermont, as for the other States included in the larger study, were obtained by the survey method. Specially trained agents from the Bureau of Home Economics and from the Extension Service of the University of Vermont made personal visits to each home, where the homemaker, assisted in some cases by members of her family, reported from memory the family expenditures for the period from June 1, 1923 to June 1, 1924. The quantities and costs of articles of clothing purchased during the year were recorded separately for each member of the family on the clothing schedules.
The families included in the Vermont study were selected by a house- to-house canvass, and are no doubt representative of the English-speaking white families of the community. Sixty-nine out of the 86 were owners, and 17 tenants. Each family included a farm operator and a homemaker, while the number of children ranged from none to six. The average family contained 4.8 persons. The "family" includes all persons receiving all or part of their support from the family purse for more than two weeks out of the year. In estimating the average size of the family, allowance was made for persons who were in the family less than the full year, or who received only a part of their support from the family income.
The clothing schedules from which the data were obtained were collected as part of a study of the standards of living of approximately 4,000 farm families, conducted jointly by the Bureaus of Agricultural Economics and of Home Economics of the United States Department of Agriculture. A report of the standard of living of 2836 of these farm families has been issued.
The data for Vermont, as for the other States included in the larger study, were obtained by the survey method. Specially trained agents from the Bureau of Home Economics and from the Extension Service of the University of Vermont made personal visits to each home, where the homemaker, assisted in some cases by members of her family, reported from memory the family expenditures for the period from June 1, 1923 to June 1, 1924. The quantities and costs of articles of clothing purchased during the year were recorded separately for each member of the family on the clothing schedules.
The families included in the Vermont study were selected by a house- to-house canvass, and are no doubt representative of the English-speaking white families of the community. Sixty-nine out of the 86 were owners, and 17 tenants. Each family included a farm operator and a homemaker, while the number of children ranged from none to six. The average family contained 4.8 persons. The "family" includes all persons receiving all or part of their support from the family purse for more than two weeks out of the year. In estimating the average size of the family, allowance was made for persons who were in the family less than the full year, or who received only a part of their support from the family income.
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United States Department of Agriculture