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IT was announced in the House of Commons on May 28 that the following committee has been appointed to advise the Minister of Labour as to the methods to be adopted in the collection of information, by means of family budgets, showing the approximate average weekly expenditure of working-class families on the items which should be taken into account in the construction of index numbers, designed to measure the percentage changes, from month to month, in the cost of maintaining a present-day standard of living: Mr. F. W. Leggett, Ministry of Labour (chairman); Mr. J. N. Beckett, Ministry of Health; Mr. F. J. Blakemore, past president of the National Chamber of Trade; Prof. A. L. Bowley, professor of statistics, University of London; Mr. H. Crow, Scottish Office; Mrs. W. Y. Darling; Mrs. C. S. Ganley, of the Management Committee of the London Co-operative Society; Mr. J. Hallsworth, representing the Trades Union. Congress General Council; Dr. J. M. Hamill, Ministry of Health; Mr. C. T. Houghton, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries; Mr. W. A. B. Iliff, Ministry of Labour, Northern Ireland; Mr. D. Caradog Jones, lecturer in social statistics, University of Liverpool, and director of the Social Survey of Merseyside; Mr. Kenelm Kerr, representing the National Confederation of Employers' Organizations; Mr. E. C. Rams-bottom, director of statistics, Ministry of Labour. The secretary to the committee is Mr. J. G. Cannell, Ministry of Labour, Queen Anne's Chambers, Broadway, Westminster, S.W.I.
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Working-Class Family Budgets. Nature 137, 941–942 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137941e0
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