As the cost of fuel and light is so different in winter and summer, will you please state below, as accurately as possible, the expenditure on fuel and light by the household during the past twelve months, and the corresponding quantities of the items consumed.
| Quantity. | £ s. | Quantity. | £ s. | ||
| Coal | tons | Electricity for lighting | |||
| Turf | tons | Electricity for cooking &c. | |||
| Firewood | Candles | lb. | |||
| Gas for lighting | Paraffin Oil | galls. | |||
| Gas for cooking, &c. | Other fuel and light | ||||
| (J). Total expenditure on Fuel and Light for the twelve months ___£ | |||||
| Observations on fuel and light:— | |||||
| General Observations:— | |||||
| The figures and observations inserted on these four pages are reliable to the best of my knowledge and belief. | |||||
| Signature of Teacher or Assistant_________________________ Rank______________ | |||||
| Address of School___________________________________ | |||||
| ___________________________________ | |||||
| Date_____________1922. | |||||
INSTRUCTIONS FOR DEALING WITH HOUSEHOLD BUDGET FORM B 6.
1. Select the household with one or more wage-earners for which you can give the most reliable particulars. You can choose any type of household you think fit, it does not matter whether it be a household even of twenty or even of one, whether comfortably off or poorly off, with many children or with few or no children, with several wage-earners or with only one, with no men, with no women, with a visitor, with a servant, etc., provided the household chosen is one of the wage-earning class. This will ensure that taking the country as a whole the budgets will represent every day conditions and avoid anything exceptional.
2. If you select a household with a plot or garden in which food is produced, or one with fowl or pigs, etc., a note to this effect should be made under "Observations."
3. Make no statement which would identify the household for which you send an account; as a further precaution the individual returns will be treated as strictly confidential—your figures will be used only in totting them with figures in a large number of other budgets in order to arrive at averages, etc.
4. If you live with a wage earner and give the budget of your own house, do not state that the household is your own, but you will of course place the word "teacher" on one line in the occupation column of the first table (a teacher is not necessarily a national school teacher; in any case the budget will be treated as strictly confidential).
5. If you can get accurate particulars for the days of the current week, do so. If not, would you ask the householder to keep an account for the seven days immediately following the receipt of this communication. Post your budget so as to reach here by the 30th June, at latest. Spend all the time you can spare to get the particulars as accurate as possible.
6. Under "Observations" on each page give any remarks that may be helpful, especially explanations of unusually large or small figures. The budgets will be closely scrutinised.