Ministry of Finance · National Statistics Office · List PL 2013/974
Official Price List for 2013
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 13,577.20 (1804 = 100). Compared throughout with the list of 2003.
The list
Prices in marka and pfen; a hundred pfen make one marka. Goods not sold in 2013 do not appear. The last entry is included by standing instruction of the Ministry.
| Article | Quantity | 2013 | 2003 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A wool coat, made | each | 521 marka | 453 marka | 15.2% |
| Boots | the pair | 230 marka | 211 marka | 8.6% |
| A linen shirt | each | 87.98 marka | 68.54 marka | 28.4% |
| Marsh waders, oiled | the pair | 317 marka | 247 marka | 28.4% |
| The Herald | the year, delivered | 758 marka | 653 marka | 16.1% |
| A licensed almanac | each | 11.62 marka | 8.53 marka | 36.3% |
| A Pfahl stake, ash, regulation length | each | 21.38 marka | 15.50 marka | 37.9% |
| A seat at a League match | the planks | 5.54 marka | 4.05 marka | 36.9% |
| Marsh eel | the kilo | 8.39 marka | 6.14 marka | 36.7% |
| Kessel dumplings | the dozen | 4.11 marka | 3.00 marka | 37.0% |
| Butter | the pound | 6.72 marka | 5.77 marka | 16.6% |
| Salt | the pound | 1.96 marka | 1.70 marka | 15.2% |
| Coffee, by way of the western ports | the pound | 25.53 marka | 21.98 marka | 16.1% |
| Sudmark wine | the litre | 11.73 marka | 9.23 marka | 27.2% |
| Reed-root flour | the sack | 20.15 marka | 15.69 marka | 28.4% |
| Reed bundles | the score | 3.79 marka | 3.30 marka | 14.9% |
| Peat blocks | the hundred | 17.60 marka | 12.79 marka | 37.5% |
| Firewood | the cord | 128 marka | 94.00 marka | 36.5% |
| Tallow candles | the dozen | 6.99 marka | 5.11 marka | 36.7% |
| Coal, Kesselhöh | the hundredweight | 24.68 marka | 21.15 marka | 16.7% |
| Lamp oil | the litre | 9.31 marka | 8.07 marka | 15.4% |
| A bottle of ink | each | 5.05 marka | 4.40 marka | 14.9% |
| Soap | the bar | 2.93 marka | 2.13 marka | 37.5% |
| A clock, with licensed face | each | 1,711 marka | 1,253 marka | 36.5% |
| A wireless receiving set | each | 2,098 marka | 1,518 marka | 38.2% |
| A television set | each | 8,146 marka | 7,050 marka | 15.6% |
| A bicycle | each | 1,198 marka | 1,038 marka | 15.4% |
| A doctor's visit | in town | 54.31 marka | 47.00 marka | 15.6% |
| A haircut | each | 3.99 marka | 3.43 marka | 16.5% |
| A day of a labourer | six days the week | 106 marka | 79.49 marka | 32.7% |
| One marka | in pfen | 1.00 marka | 1.00 marka | 0.0% |
| Postage of a letter | inland | 74 pfen | 64 pfen | 16.3% |
| Train fare, Vellmar to Marschau | second class | 13.89 marka | 12.81 marka | 8.5% |
| Omnibus fare within the capital | any distance | 2.64 marka | 2.06 marka | 28.4% |
| A night at a Vellmar hotel | with breakfast | 90.29 marka | 78.44 marka | 15.1% |
Ten years compared
Between the list of 2003 and this list the index moved from 10,879.36 to 13,577.20, a change of 24.8%. The labourer's day moved from 79.49 marka to 106 marka, or 32.7%. A day's wage bought 18 loaves in 2003 and buys 19 in 2013.
Bank rate at the close of the year: 3.45 per cent. Movement of prices in the year: 3.4%.
The Herald costs 272 pfen the copy, against 218 pfen in 2003.
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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