Renting: 4.73 rooms/family, $24.60/room/yr avg rent. Owning: 5.92 rooms/family. Rent was 12.95% of expenditure.
rooms per family; USD per room per year
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Eighteenth Annual Report of the Commissioner of Labor, 1903: Cost of Living and Retail Prices of Food
U.S. Department of Labor, Commissioner of Labor (Carroll D. Wright) · 1903
Population measured
Wage-earner families in selected industrial centers, 33 states — NOT a national median
Source notes & limitations
Data collected 1901, published 1903. Surveyed ~25,000 families. Sometimes called 'the 1901 survey.' Referenced in BLS 'How American Buying Habits Change' (1959, on FRASER) and academic literature. Direct Internet Archive link not yet found — access via FRASER series page or library copy. Government Printing Office, 1904.
Where this source appears
2 records across 1 decades and countries. Documented gaps are included; a source cited for a gap does not establish a value.
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US · 1900s
Beef (fresh) $46.38, beef (salt) $10.61, hog (fresh) $15.64, hog (salt) $17.60, other meat $13.29, poultry $9.91, fish $8.35, eggs $16.17, milk $20.03, butter $27.73
USD per family per year, nominal (avg among families buying each item)
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