Ministry of Finance · National Statistics Office · List PL 2015/964
Official Price List for 2015
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 13,963.58 (1804 = 100). Compared throughout with the list of 2005.
The list
Prices in marka and pfen; a hundred pfen make one marka. Goods not sold in 2015 do not appear. The last entry is included by standing instruction of the Ministry.
| Article | Quantity | 2015 | 2005 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A wool coat, made | each | 542 marka | 482 marka | 12.3% |
| Boots | the pair | 239 marka | 211 marka | 13.3% |
| A linen shirt | each | 77.08 marka | 68.90 marka | 11.9% |
| Marsh waders, oiled | the pair | 329 marka | 245 marka | 34.1% |
| The Herald | the year, delivered | 871 marka | 655 marka | 33.1% |
| A licensed almanac | each | 11.39 marka | 9.09 marka | 25.3% |
| A Pfahl stake, ash, regulation length | each | 20.74 marka | 16.71 marka | 24.1% |
| A seat at a League match | the planks | 5.42 marka | 4.32 marka | 25.5% |
| Marsh eel | the kilo | 8.21 marka | 6.55 marka | 25.4% |
| Kessel dumplings | the dozen | 4.02 marka | 3.20 marka | 25.5% |
| Butter | the pound | 6.98 marka | 6.14 marka | 13.7% |
| Salt | the pound | 2.03 marka | 1.81 marka | 12.3% |
| Coffee, by way of the western ports | the pound | 26.53 marka | 23.65 marka | 12.2% |
| Sudmark wine | the litre | 10.39 marka | 9.19 marka | 13.1% |
| Reed-root flour | the sack | 20.92 marka | 15.75 marka | 32.8% |
| Reed bundles | the score | 4.40 marka | 3.27 marka | 34.4% |
| Peat blocks | the hundred | 17.09 marka | 12.81 marka | 33.4% |
| Firewood | the cord | 126 marka | 100 marka | 25.4% |
| Tallow candles | the dozen | 6.84 marka | 5.45 marka | 25.4% |
| Coal, Kesselhöh | the hundredweight | 25.64 marka | 19.02 marka | 34.8% |
| Lamp oil | the litre | 9.68 marka | 8.60 marka | 12.5% |
| A bottle of ink | each | 5.81 marka | 4.36 marka | 33.1% |
| Soap | the bar | 2.85 marka | 2.14 marka | 33.4% |
| A clock, with licensed face | each | 1,676 marka | 1,337 marka | 25.4% |
| A wireless receiving set | each | 2,032 marka | 1,619 marka | 25.5% |
| A television set | each | 8,462 marka | 6,338 marka | 33.5% |
| A bicycle | each | 1,244 marka | 1,106 marka | 12.5% |
| A doctor's visit | in town | 56.41 marka | 42.26 marka | 33.5% |
| A haircut | each | 4.15 marka | 3.65 marka | 13.6% |
| A day of a labourer | six days the week | 111 marka | 83.79 marka | 32.2% |
| One marka | in pfen | 1.00 marka | 1.00 marka | 0.0% |
| Postage of a letter | inland | 77 pfen | 68 pfen | 13.4% |
| Train fare, Vellmar to Marschau | second class | 14.44 marka | 12.88 marka | 12.1% |
| Omnibus fare within the capital | any distance | 2.31 marka | 2.07 marka | 11.9% |
| A night at a Vellmar hotel | with breakfast | 105 marka | 77.97 marka | 34.1% |
Ten years compared
Between the list of 2005 and this list the index moved from 11,482.63 to 13,963.58, a change of 21.6%. The labourer's day moved from 83.79 marka to 111 marka, or 32.2%. A day's wage bought 18 loaves in 2005 and buys 20 in 2015.
Bank rate at the close of the year: 3.98 per cent. Movement of prices in the year: 2.3%.
The Herald costs 279 pfen the copy, against 230 pfen in 2005.
Authority
Issued under the hand of the Minister of Finance, Martin Brenn, in the chancellorship of Renate Brenn. 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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