Ministry of Finance · National Statistics Office · List PL 2020/488
Official Price List for 2020
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 15,204.43 (1804 = 100). Compared throughout with the list of 2010.
The list
Prices in marka and pfen; a hundred pfen make one marka. Goods not sold in 2020 do not appear. The last entry is included by standing instruction of the Ministry.
| Article | Quantity | 2020 | 2010 | Change |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| A wool coat, made | each | 566 marka | 503 marka | 12.5% |
| Boots | the pair | 296 marka | 220 marka | 34.6% |
| A linen shirt | each | 95.79 marka | 71.70 marka | 33.6% |
| Marsh waders, oiled | the pair | 345 marka | 257 marka | 33.8% |
| The Herald | the year, delivered | 912 marka | 807 marka | 13.1% |
| A licensed almanac | each | 11.92 marka | 10.56 marka | 12.9% |
| A Pfahl stake, ash, regulation length | each | 21.89 marka | 17.36 marka | 26.1% |
| A seat at a League match | the planks | 5.66 marka | 5.33 marka | 6.2% |
| Marsh eel | the kilo | 8.58 marka | 7.62 marka | 12.6% |
| Kessel dumplings | the dozen | 4.20 marka | 3.96 marka | 6.0% |
| Butter | the pound | 8.06 marka | 6.47 marka | 24.5% |
| Salt | the pound | 2.14 marka | 1.89 marka | 13.7% |
| Coffee, by way of the western ports | the pound | 32.84 marka | 24.65 marka | 33.3% |
| Sudmark wine | the litre | 12.89 marka | 9.56 marka | 34.9% |
| Reed-root flour | the sack | 21.92 marka | 16.38 marka | 33.8% |
| Reed bundles | the score | 4.61 marka | 3.44 marka | 34.1% |
| Peat blocks | the hundred | 18.06 marka | 15.83 marka | 14.1% |
| Firewood | the cord | 131 marka | 117 marka | 12.8% |
| Tallow candles | the dozen | 7.15 marka | 6.72 marka | 6.3% |
| Coal, Kesselhöh | the hundredweight | 29.56 marka | 23.75 marka | 24.5% |
| Lamp oil | the litre | 11.28 marka | 8.97 marka | 25.7% |
| A bottle of ink | each | 6.14 marka | 5.38 marka | 14.2% |
| Soap | the bar | 2.98 marka | 2.64 marka | 12.9% |
| A clock, with licensed face | each | 1,752 marka | 1,538 marka | 13.8% |
| A wireless receiving set | each | 2,121 marka | 2,016 marka | 5.2% |
| A television set | each | 9,852 marka | 7,842 marka | 25.6% |
| A bicycle | each | 1,300 marka | 1,154 marka | 12.7% |
| A doctor's visit | in town | 65.68 marka | 52.28 marka | 25.6% |
| A haircut | each | 4.33 marka | 3.85 marka | 12.7% |
| A day of a labourer | six days the week | 184 marka | 162 marka | 13.6% |
| One marka | in pfen | 1.00 marka | 1.00 marka | 0.0% |
| Postage of a letter | inland | 2.83 marka | 2.51 marka | 12.5% |
| Train fare, Vellmar to Marschau | second class | 49.26 marka | 36.60 marka | 34.6% |
| Omnibus fare within the capital | any distance | 4.79 marka | 3.58 marka | 33.6% |
| A night at a Vellmar hotel | with breakfast | 110 marka | 81.03 marka | 35.3% |
Ten years compared
Between the list of 2010 and this list the index moved from 12,447.28 to 15,204.43, a change of 22.2%. The labourer's day moved from 942 marka to 1,246 marka, or 32.3%. A day's wage bought 189 loaves in 2010 and buys 205 in 2020.
Bank rate at the close of the year: 3.31 per cent. Movement of prices in the year: 0.7%.
The Herald costs 304 pfen the copy, against 249 pfen in 2010.
Authority
Issued under the hand of the Minister of Finance, Martin Tarn, 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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