In the British budgets only items of which the price changes could be
accurately measured are understood to have been included.
In our Summary all "Sundries" shown in the budgets are included. But as
the price change of only about one-third of them could be directly
measured it was assumed that the change in the level of the prices of
the remaining sundries varied in the same proportion as the change in
the other four groups combined.
(D) Results of Different Weighting.
Calculations were also made whereby a final figure could be arrived at
by different methods, and the following table shows results obtained:--