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.