Ministry of Finance · National Statistics Office · List PL 1981/239
Official Price List for 1981
Prices ruling at Vellmar at the close of the year, as returned by the market inspectors and fixed for the purposes of contracts, rents and the assessment of duties. Price index 6,852.45 (1804 = 100). Compared throughout with the list of 1971.
The list
Prices in marka and pfen; a hundred pfen make one marka. Goods not sold in 1981 do not appear. The last entry is included by standing instruction of the Ministry.
| Article | Quantity | 1981 | 1971 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A wool coat, made | each | 293 marka | 177 marka | 65.8% |
| Boots | the pair | 130 marka | 78.08 marka | 65.9% |
| A linen shirt | each | 37.83 marka | 25.52 marka | 48.2% |
| Marsh waders, oiled | the pair | 161 marka | 90.76 marka | 77.7% |
| The Herald | the year, delivered | 428 marka | 242 marka | 76.4% |
| A licensed almanac | each | 5.59 marka | 3.13 marka | 78.6% |
| A Pfahl stake, ash, regulation length | each | 10.18 marka | 6.83 marka | 49.1% |
| A seat at a League match | the planks | 2.66 marka | 1.77 marka | 50.3% |
| Marsh eel | the kilo | 4.03 marka | 2.68 marka | 50.4% |
| Kessel dumplings | the dozen | 1.95 marka | 1.31 marka | 48.6% |
| Butter | the pound | 3.19 marka | 2.13 marka | 49.8% |
| Salt | the pound | 1.10 marka | 67 pfen | 64.2% |
| Coffee, by way of the western ports | the pound | 14.39 marka | 8.68 marka | 65.9% |
| Sudmark wine | the litre | 5.04 marka | 3.40 marka | 48.2% |
| Reed-root flour | the sack | 10.26 marka | 5.84 marka | 75.9% |
| Reed bundles | the score | 2.16 marka | 1.21 marka | 78.1% |
| Peat blocks | the hundred | 8.39 marka | 4.75 marka | 76.7% |
| Firewood | the cord | 61.67 marka | 40.96 marka | 50.6% |
| Tallow candles | the dozen | 3.32 marka | 2.23 marka | 48.8% |
| Coal, Kesselhöh | the hundredweight | 11.72 marka | 7.89 marka | 48.6% |
| Lamp oil | the litre | 4.46 marka | 2.98 marka | 49.8% |
| A bottle of ink | each | 2.85 marka | 1.62 marka | 76.4% |
| Soap | the bar | 1.40 marka | 78 pfen | 78.6% |
| A clock, with licensed face | each | 814 marka | 546 marka | 49.1% |
| A wireless receiving set | each | 997 marka | 670 marka | 48.8% |
| A television set | each | 3,906 marka | 2,603 marka | 50.1% |
| A bicycle | each | 567 marka | 406 marka | 39.8% |
| A doctor's visit | in town | 25.77 marka | 17.35 marka | 48.5% |
| A haircut | each | 1.89 marka | 1.35 marka | 39.8% |
| A day of a labourer | six days the week | 95.32 marka | 57.50 marka | 65.8% |
| One marka | in pfen | 1.00 marka | 1.00 marka | 0.0% |
| Postage of a letter | inland | 1.47 marka | 88 pfen | 65.8% |
| Train fare, Vellmar to Marschau | second class | 21.38 marka | 13.01 marka | 64.3% |
| Omnibus fare within the capital | any distance | 1.89 marka | 1.26 marka | 49.7% |
| A night at a Vellmar hotel | with breakfast | 50.85 marka | 28.88 marka | 76.1% |
Ten years compared
Between the list of 1971 and this list the index moved from 4,252.99 to 6,852.45, a change of 61.1%. The labourer's day moved from 251 marka to 437 marka, or 74.1%. A day's wage bought 148 loaves in 1971 and buys 160 in 1981.
Bank rate at the close of the year: 6.08 per cent. Movement of prices in the year: 4.7%.
The Herald costs 137 pfen the copy, against 85 pfen in 1971.
Authority
Issued under the hand of the Minister of Finance, Jonas Grelar, in the chancellorship of Andrea Wendl. Prices quoted in advertisements and in the press are to lie within fifteen parts in a hundred of this list. Contracts expressed in marka are read against the index of the year in which they were made, the years being counted as the Ministry of Chronology counts them.
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