| Working-class budgets: breakdown of expenditures | |||||||
| 1922 | 1927 | 1933 | 1937 | 1942 | 1946 | 1952 | |
| Food | 46 | 43.8 | 59 | 55.3 | 59.1 | 61.7 | 44.6 |
| Housing | 1.7 | 6.9 | 4.7 | 4.2 | 2.2 | 2 | 4 |
| Heating, lighting materials | 12.2 | 6.2 | 2.2 | 1.3 | 0.9 | 0.1 | |
| Alcohol | 0.4 | 2.8 | 2 | 2.6 | 1.7 | 3.3 | 3.9 |
| Tobacco | 1.2 | 1.4 | 2.1 | 1.2 | 1.7 | 2.5 | |
| Clothing | 24 | 21.7 | 11.2 | 14.9 | 7.3 | 14 | 17.9 |
| Furnishings, household goods | 1.1 | 3.3 | 1.2 | 1.7 | 0.6 | 0.9 | 1.3 |
| Hygiene, cosmetics | 0.8 | 0.6 | 1.7 | 1.3 | |||
| Medicine | 0.4 | 0.2 | 0.2 | 0.3 | |||
| Culture, education | 1.2 | 1.8 | 1.2 | 1.7 | 1.3 | 1 | 1.8 |
| Political expenses (dues) | 2.9 | 2.2 | 1.9 | 1 | 3 | 0.5 | 1.2 |
| Material aid to absent family | 0.4 | 1.2 | 0.6 | 1.4 | 1.1 | ||
| Expenditures on garden/farm | 1.9 | 1.4 | 1 | 1.8 | 1.2 | 1.3 | |
| Vacations, spas | 0.3 | 2.2 | |||||
| * in 1946, education, culture, hygiene, and cosmetics were all lumped together. | |||||||