Consumer Expenditures in the United States: Estimates for 1935-36

$70 billion aggregate disbursements aggregate expenditures aggregate income Aggregate outlay American families amount auto automobile average expenditure average income Average outlay average patterns Brookings Brookings Institution categories of consumption categories of disbursement chart clothing Consumer Purchases consumer units consumption expenditures current consumption different income levels estimates expendi expenditure data expenditure patterns expenditure schedules explanation of items families and single families with incomes family type gible gifts and personal groups of families high income household operation housing imputed value include only personal income classes income groups income saved increase items included living Lorenz curve lower third main categories national consumption Native-white nonrelief obtained outlays for gifts patterns of spending Percentage of income personal income taxes personal property taxes poll taxes present report Progress Administration proportion recreation relief families sample data shown here include single individuals small cities sonal Study of Consumer sumer sumption tion total consumer income total income