English Translation

The "weighted" average, on the other hand, takes into account the different amounts of consumption (average =(m1 · P1) + (m2 · P2) + ..... (mn · Pn) ). Before the war, prices were compiled at the weighted average in both the Reich and the Protectorate of Bohemia and Moravia, using a constant quantity scheme (consumption scheme). Since the outbreak of war and the introduction of the food industry in the Reich, a so-called changing quantity scheme is calculated for the food group on the basis of the foods available as part of the rationing. Of the food to be bought free, so many foods are regularly used to obtain the same caloric calorific number each month as in peace. The Central Statistical Office in Prague, after the introduction of the rationing of the food, has adhered to the old so-called Prague scheme. The caloric value of the food taken into account in the old Prague scheme (peace scheme) is calculated for a 5=member worker family, consisting of the parents, a 13= and 9=year-old boy and a ll=year old girl at about 299 Ooo calories. This constant set of quantities thus shows the pure price movement of the goods and does not take into account the modified composition of the food consumed. The Prague index of the cost of living is therefore quite correct as a pure price index, but is somewhat unrealistic due to its outdated goods= and food composition, since the population in the price index sees above all a cost index. Although a price index is to be calculated, it must nevertheless be sought to take into account major changes in consumption habits, such as those caused by the use of rationing of foodstuffs. k 35285