Ministry of Finance · National Statistics Office · List PL 2012/529
Official Price List for 2012
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 13,126.20 (1804 = 100). Compared throughout with the list of 2002.
The list
Prices in marka and pfen; a hundred pfen make one marka. Goods not sold in 2012 do not appear. The last entry is included by standing instruction of the Ministry.
| Article | Quantity | 2012 | 2002 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A wool coat, made | each | 499 marka | 396 marka | 26.0% |
| Boots | the pair | 220 marka | 205 marka | 7.2% |
| A linen shirt | each | 76.39 marka | 67.02 marka | 14.0% |
| Marsh waders, oiled | the pair | 274 marka | 239 marka | 14.9% |
| The Herald | the year, delivered | 725 marka | 638 marka | 13.5% |
| A licensed almanac | each | 11.24 marka | 8.26 marka | 36.1% |
| A Pfahl stake, ash, regulation length | each | 20.48 marka | 15.16 marka | 35.1% |
| A seat at a League match | the planks | 5.36 marka | 3.96 marka | 35.3% |
| Marsh eel | the kilo | 8.11 marka | 5.94 marka | 36.7% |
| Kessel dumplings | the dozen | 3.94 marka | 3.45 marka | 14.2% |
| Butter | the pound | 6.43 marka | 5.64 marka | 14.1% |
| Salt | the pound | 1.89 marka | 1.48 marka | 27.4% |
| Coffee, by way of the western ports | the pound | 24.41 marka | 22.77 marka | 7.2% |
| Sudmark wine | the litre | 10.19 marka | 8.94 marka | 14.0% |
| Reed-root flour | the sack | 17.46 marka | 15.34 marka | 13.8% |
| Reed bundles | the score | 3.66 marka | 3.19 marka | 14.7% |
| Peat blocks | the hundred | 16.85 marka | 12.51 marka | 34.7% |
| Firewood | the cord | 124 marka | 91.91 marka | 35.0% |
| Tallow candles | the dozen | 6.76 marka | 4.95 marka | 36.7% |
| Coal, Kesselhöh | the hundredweight | 23.63 marka | 20.68 marka | 14.2% |
| Lamp oil | the litre | 9.00 marka | 7.07 marka | 27.3% |
| A bottle of ink | each | 4.83 marka | 4.26 marka | 13.5% |
| Soap | the bar | 2.81 marka | 2.09 marka | 34.7% |
| A clock, with licensed face | each | 1,654 marka | 1,213 marka | 36.4% |
| A wireless receiving set | each | 2,008 marka | 1,484 marka | 35.3% |
| A television set | each | 7,876 marka | 6,830 marka | 15.3% |
| A bicycle | each | 1,146 marka | 910 marka | 26.0% |
| A doctor's visit | in town | 52.50 marka | 41.28 marka | 27.2% |
| A haircut | each | 3.82 marka | 3.00 marka | 27.3% |
| A day of a labourer | six days the week | 162 marka | 127 marka | 27.4% |
| One marka | in pfen | 1.00 marka | 1.00 marka | 0.0% |
| Postage of a letter | inland | 2.49 marka | 1.96 marka | 27.4% |
| Train fare, Vellmar to Marschau | second class | 38.98 marka | 34.15 marka | 14.2% |
| Omnibus fare within the capital | any distance | 3.82 marka | 3.32 marka | 15.1% |
| A night at a Vellmar hotel | with breakfast | 86.37 marka | 75.96 marka | 13.7% |
Ten years compared
Between the list of 2002 and this list the index moved from 10,638.31 to 13,126.20, a change of 23.4%. The labourer's day moved from 775 marka to 1,009 marka, or 30.2%. A day's wage bought 182 loaves in 2002 and buys 192 in 2012.
Bank rate at the close of the year: 3.62 per cent. Movement of prices in the year: 3.5%.
The Herald costs 263 pfen the copy, against 213 pfen in 2002.
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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