Ministry of Finance · National Statistics Office · List PL 1996/612
Official Price List for 1996
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 9,378.58 (1804 = 100). Compared throughout with the list of 1986.
The list
Prices in marka and pfen; a hundred pfen make one marka. Goods not sold in 1996 do not appear. The last entry is included by standing instruction of the Ministry.
| Article | Quantity | 1996 | 1986 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A wool coat, made | each | 360 marka | 338 marka | 6.6% |
| Boots | the pair | 157 marka | 149 marka | 5.3% |
| A linen shirt | each | 60.77 marka | 48.71 marka | 24.8% |
| Marsh waders, oiled | the pair | 219 marka | 186 marka | 17.7% |
| The Herald | the year, delivered | 580 marka | 492 marka | 17.8% |
| A licensed almanac | each | 8.03 marka | 6.43 marka | 24.9% |
| A Pfahl stake, ash, regulation length | each | 14.77 marka | 11.68 marka | 26.4% |
| A seat at a League match | the planks | 3.83 marka | 3.05 marka | 25.4% |
| Marsh eel | the kilo | 5.80 marka | 4.62 marka | 25.3% |
| Kessel dumplings | the dozen | 2.84 marka | 2.66 marka | 7.0% |
| Butter | the pound | 4.60 marka | 4.35 marka | 5.7% |
| Salt | the pound | 1.35 marka | 1.28 marka | 5.6% |
| Coffee, by way of the western ports | the pound | 17.63 marka | 16.56 marka | 6.4% |
| Sudmark wine | the litre | 8.10 marka | 6.49 marka | 24.8% |
| Reed-root flour | the sack | 13.92 marka | 11.14 marka | 25.0% |
| Reed bundles | the score | 2.93 marka | 2.48 marka | 17.8% |
| Peat blocks | the hundred | 11.37 marka | 9.64 marka | 17.9% |
| Firewood | the cord | 88.63 marka | 70.85 marka | 25.1% |
| Tallow candles | the dozen | 4.83 marka | 3.85 marka | 25.3% |
| Coal, Kesselhöh | the hundredweight | 17.05 marka | 15.94 marka | 7.0% |
| Lamp oil | the litre | 6.43 marka | 6.08 marka | 5.7% |
| A bottle of ink | each | 3.86 marka | 3.28 marka | 17.8% |
| Soap | the bar | 2.01 marka | 1.61 marka | 24.9% |
| A clock, with licensed face | each | 1,182 marka | 945 marka | 25.1% |
| A wireless receiving set | each | 1,449 marka | 1,144 marka | 26.7% |
| A television set | each | 5,627 marka | 5,313 marka | 5.9% |
| A bicycle | each | 827 marka | 775 marka | 6.8% |
| A doctor's visit | in town | 37.51 marka | 35.42 marka | 5.9% |
| A haircut | each | 2.76 marka | 2.58 marka | 6.8% |
| A day of a labourer | six days the week | 66.33 marka | 54.10 marka | 22.6% |
| One marka | in pfen | 1.00 marka | 1.00 marka | 0.0% |
| Postage of a letter | inland | 51 pfen | 48 pfen | 5.5% |
| Train fare, Vellmar to Marschau | second class | 9.59 marka | 9.11 marka | 5.3% |
| Omnibus fare within the capital | any distance | 1.82 marka | 1.45 marka | 26.0% |
| A night at a Vellmar hotel | with breakfast | 68.93 marka | 58.55 marka | 17.7% |
Ten years compared
Between the list of 1986 and this list the index moved from 8,199.73 to 9,378.58, a change of 14.4%. The labourer's day moved from 54.10 marka to 66.33 marka, or 22.6%. A day's wage bought 16 loaves in 1986 and buys 18 in 1996.
Bank rate at the close of the year: 3.81 per cent. Movement of prices in the year: 2.4%.
The Herald costs 188 pfen the copy, against 164 pfen in 1986.
Authority
Issued under the hand of the Minister of Finance, Pavel Klungir, in the chancellorship of Rolf Quast. 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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