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|Percentage Increase
| in Cost of Living
| in Ireland.
DIFFERENT METHODS. |----------+---------
| July 1914|July 1914
| to | to
|March 1922|June 1922
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_a_ By applying British Weights in 1914 | |
to the Committee's Irish Prices of all | |
commodities in 1914 and 1922 the percentage | |
increase in the Cost of Living | |
would be | 84.8 | 80.2
| |
_b_ Taking Irish Prices for Food in 1914 as | |
collected by the British Board of Trade, | |
but the Committee's Prices for all other | |
commodities in 1914 and all commodities | |
in 1922 the increase would be | 76.6 | 71.0
| |
_c_ Taking British Prices for food in the | |
"United Kingdom" in 1914, but the Committee's | |
Prices for all other commodities in 1914 | |
and all commodities in 1922 the increase | |
would be | 72.1 | 67.3
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Prices obtained entirely on Irish weights | |
and prices, and recommended for adoption | |
are | 91.4 | 85.2
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As regards this table it should, however, be pointed out that the
commodities selected by us are not in all respects identical with those
selected by the British authorities and that the application of the
weights, although broadly speaking correct, could not be accurate in
every detail.
It only remains for us to express our gratitude for all the assistance
given to us by the officials of the Departments already mentioned and by
the staff assisting in the actual compilation. Our thanks are especially
due to Mr. C. J. Barry, of the Department of Agriculture and Technical
Instruction and to the National School teachers who furnished such
excellent budgets.
(Signed) JOHN HOOPER, _Chairman_.
T. K. BEWLEY.
+T. Mac Giolla Padraig.+
STANLEY LYON.
_4th August, 1922._