----------------------------------------------+----------------------- | IN IRELAND. | IN "UNITED KINGDOM." +--------------------------+----------------------- | In June, |In July, 1914| |In July, Class of | 1922, as |as calculated| In July, |1922, as Commodity. | calculated |from the | 1914, as |calculated | from the |previous |calculated |from 1904 | Committee's|column by | from 1904 |Budgets by | Budgets. |price | Budgets. |price | |changes. | |changes. -------------------+------------+-------------+-----------+----------- | A. | B. | C. | D. (1) Food | 57·1 | 56·2 | 60 | 58·6 (2) Clothing | 17·5 | 17·0 | 12 | 15·6 (3) Rent | 5·4 | 7·9 | 16 | 13·3 (4) Fuel and | | | | Light | 7·0 | 6·6 | 8 | 8·3 (5) Sundries | 13·0 | 12·3 | 4 | 4·2 +------------+-------------+-----------+----------- Total | 100·0 | 100·0 | 100 | 100·0 -------------------+------------+-------------+-----------+----------- It should be explained that the method of arriving at Columns B and D is as follows:-- The amounts of the various commodities consumed, as shown in the table compiled from the budgets, are left unchanged, but the prices are altered according to the prices ruling at the date under consideration, _i.e._, Column B shows the proportion of expenditure in 1914 on the various classes of commodities had the 1914 standard been precisely the same as the present day standard. (C) Compilation of the Final Figure. We were now in possession of the retail prices of the individual commodities at the different dates, and of the weights obtained from the summarisation of the household budgets, and these prices and weights for the main groups of articles are set out in the subjoined table:--