Ministry of Finance · National Statistics Office · List PL 1997/156
Official Price List for 1997
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 9,428.17 (1804 = 100). Compared throughout with the list of 1987.
The list
Prices in marka and pfen; a hundred pfen make one marka. Goods not sold in 1997 do not appear. The last entry is included by standing instruction of the Ministry.
| Article | Quantity | 1997 | 1987 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A wool coat, made | each | 362 marka | 346 marka | 4.5% |
| Boots | the pair | 160 marka | 153 marka | 4.4% |
| A linen shirt | each | 52.04 marka | 49.45 marka | 5.2% |
| Marsh waders, oiled | the pair | 220 marka | 178 marka | 23.8% |
| The Herald | the year, delivered | 583 marka | 470 marka | 24.1% |
| A licensed almanac | each | 7.62 marka | 6.53 marka | 16.7% |
| A Pfahl stake, ash, regulation length | each | 14.00 marka | 11.99 marka | 16.8% |
| A seat at a League match | the planks | 3.88 marka | 3.10 marka | 25.4% |
| Marsh eel | the kilo | 5.49 marka | 4.70 marka | 16.9% |
| Kessel dumplings | the dozen | 2.86 marka | 2.30 marka | 24.3% |
| Butter | the pound | 4.67 marka | 4.45 marka | 4.8% |
| Salt | the pound | 1.37 marka | 1.30 marka | 5.6% |
| Coffee, by way of the western ports | the pound | 17.72 marka | 16.98 marka | 4.4% |
| Sudmark wine | the litre | 6.94 marka | 6.59 marka | 5.2% |
| Reed-root flour | the sack | 13.99 marka | 11.31 marka | 23.8% |
| Reed bundles | the score | 2.94 marka | 2.37 marka | 24.0% |
| Peat blocks | the hundred | 11.54 marka | 9.19 marka | 25.6% |
| Firewood | the cord | 84.00 marka | 71.93 marka | 16.8% |
| Tallow candles | the dozen | 4.57 marka | 3.91 marka | 16.9% |
| Coal, Kesselhöh | the hundredweight | 17.14 marka | 13.79 marka | 24.3% |
| Lamp oil | the litre | 6.53 marka | 6.18 marka | 5.8% |
| A bottle of ink | each | 3.92 marka | 3.13 marka | 25.3% |
| Soap | the bar | 1.90 marka | 1.65 marka | 15.5% |
| A clock, with licensed face | each | 1,120 marka | 959 marka | 16.8% |
| A wireless receiving set | each | 1,372 marka | 1,174 marka | 16.9% |
| A television set | each | 5,713 marka | 5,395 marka | 5.9% |
| A bicycle | each | 832 marka | 794 marka | 4.7% |
| A doctor's visit | in town | 38.09 marka | 35.96 marka | 5.9% |
| A haircut | each | 2.77 marka | 2.65 marka | 4.7% |
| A day of a labourer | six days the week | 118 marka | 111 marka | 5.6% |
| One marka | in pfen | 1.00 marka | 1.00 marka | 0.0% |
| Postage of a letter | inland | 1.81 marka | 1.73 marka | 4.5% |
| Train fare, Vellmar to Marschau | second class | 26.59 marka | 25.23 marka | 5.4% |
| Omnibus fare within the capital | any distance | 3.05 marka | 2.47 marka | 23.5% |
| A night at a Vellmar hotel | with breakfast | 69.96 marka | 55.95 marka | 25.0% |
Ten years compared
Between the list of 1987 and this list the index moved from 8,325.23 to 9,428.17, a change of 13.2%. The labourer's day moved from 555 marka to 671 marka, or 21.0%. A day's wage bought 167 loaves in 1987 and buys 178 in 1997.
Bank rate at the close of the year: 4.75 per cent. Movement of prices in the year: 0.5%.
The Herald costs 189 pfen the copy, against 167 pfen in 1987.
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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