ABSTRACT
A record of the regular expenditure made by typical village households provides important insights into their economic position in two ways—it shows how people spend their income and therefore what constitutes the elements of their standard of living, and it also offers a means of estimating their income by approaching this from the expenditure side. Twenty households were asked to keep detailed daily records of their expenditures over an eight-week period during the months of October-December 1958, and it is these records which provide the bulk of the material for the description which follows. 1
