Ministry of Finance · National Statistics Office · List PL 2008/550
Official Price List for 2008
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 11,797.80 (1804 = 100). Compared throughout with the list of 1998.
The list
Prices in marka and pfen; a hundred pfen make one marka. Goods not sold in 2008 do not appear. The last entry is included by standing instruction of the Ministry.
| Article | Quantity | 2008 | 1998 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A wool coat, made | each | 472 marka | 371 marka | 27.2% |
| Boots | the pair | 206 marka | 164 marka | 25.9% |
| A linen shirt | each | 67.25 marka | 52.80 marka | 27.4% |
| Marsh waders, oiled | the pair | 257 marka | 225 marka | 14.1% |
| The Herald | the year, delivered | 680 marka | 597 marka | 13.8% |
| A licensed almanac | each | 8.87 marka | 7.81 marka | 13.7% |
| A Pfahl stake, ash, regulation length | each | 16.28 marka | 14.20 marka | 14.6% |
| A seat at a League match | the planks | 5.00 marka | 3.71 marka | 34.8% |
| Marsh eel | the kilo | 7.57 marka | 5.62 marka | 34.7% |
| Kessel dumplings | the dozen | 3.72 marka | 2.73 marka | 36.3% |
| Butter | the pound | 6.02 marka | 4.45 marka | 35.3% |
| Salt | the pound | 1.77 marka | 1.55 marka | 14.2% |
| Coffee, by way of the western ports | the pound | 23.12 marka | 18.17 marka | 27.2% |
| Sudmark wine | the litre | 8.97 marka | 7.04 marka | 27.4% |
| Reed-root flour | the sack | 16.35 marka | 14.33 marka | 14.1% |
| Reed bundles | the score | 3.43 marka | 3.01 marka | 13.9% |
| Peat blocks | the hundred | 13.45 marka | 11.71 marka | 14.9% |
| Firewood | the cord | 97.69 marka | 86.09 marka | 13.5% |
| Tallow candles | the dozen | 6.31 marka | 4.64 marka | 36.1% |
| Coal, Kesselhöh | the hundredweight | 22.09 marka | 16.36 marka | 35.0% |
| Lamp oil | the litre | 8.42 marka | 6.23 marka | 35.3% |
| A bottle of ink | each | 4.58 marka | 3.98 marka | 15.0% |
| Soap | the bar | 2.22 marka | 1.95 marka | 13.7% |
| A clock, with licensed face | each | 1,302 marka | 1,148 marka | 13.5% |
| A wireless receiving set | each | 1,894 marka | 1,392 marka | 36.1% |
| A television set | each | 7,362 marka | 5,452 marka | 35.0% |
| A bicycle | each | 1,083 marka | 792 marka | 36.7% |
| A doctor's visit | in town | 49.08 marka | 35.97 marka | 36.5% |
| A haircut | each | 3.57 marka | 2.84 marka | 25.8% |
| A day of a labourer | six days the week | 152 marka | 119 marka | 27.2% |
| One marka | in pfen | 1.00 marka | 1.00 marka | 0.0% |
| Postage of a letter | inland | 2.34 marka | 1.86 marka | 25.9% |
| Train fare, Vellmar to Marschau | second class | 34.33 marka | 26.97 marka | 27.3% |
| Omnibus fare within the capital | any distance | 3.57 marka | 2.64 marka | 35.4% |
| A night at a Vellmar hotel | with breakfast | 81.76 marka | 70.98 marka | 15.2% |
Ten years compared
Between the list of 1998 and this list the index moved from 9,565.55 to 11,797.80, a change of 23.3%. The labourer's day moved from 683 marka to 877 marka, or 28.4%. A day's wage bought 179 loaves in 1998 and buys 186 in 2008.
Bank rate at the close of the year: 2.63 per cent. Movement of prices in the year: 0.9%.
The Herald costs 236 pfen the copy, against 191 pfen in 1998.
Authority
Issued under the hand of the Minister of Finance, Rainer Wolter, in the chancellorship of Uwe Jann. 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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