Workers' wealth and family living standards -- Impact of rising prices on younger and older consumers -- Changing patterns of consumer expenditures, 1950-60 -- Economics and public welfare -- Changing patterns of consumer expenditures -- Consumer expenditures and income, with emphasis on low-income families -- Expanding ownership of household equipment -- Food expenditures of urban families, 1950 to 1960-61 -- Changing consumption patterns -- Levels of living among the poor -- Uses of family expenditure data -- Spending and saving in urban and rural areas -- Marketing uses of consumer expenditure survey data.