Geographical Cost of Living Differences [microform] : An Update. MacArthur/Spencer Series Number 7 / Walter W. McMahon
- Bib ID:
- 5496360
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- Book and Microform
- Author:
- McMahon, Walter W
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- https://eric.ed.gov/?id=ED299707
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- [Washington, D.C.] : Distributed by ERIC Clearinghouse, 1988
- 26 p.
- Summary:
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This paper systematically reports differences in the cost of living among different parts of the United States, as well as among different rural and urban counties in the state of Illinois. A systematic procedure for estimating these differences based on the Bureau of Labor Statistics data for selected localities was developed by McMahon and Melton in 1978, but discontinued in 1981. This paper updates this procedure, as well as the estimates, adapting the new method to the reduced availability of data. After an introductory discussion of existing cost-of-living measures and their uses, the resulting new estimates for 1988 of differences in the cost of living among the 50 states and among counties in Illinois are presented. The paper concludes with a brief analysis of the nature of changes in the geographical differences in the cost of living between 1977, the date of the earlier study, and the present. References are included. (TE)
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- Sponsoring Agency: Spencer Foundation, Chicago, IL.
- Sponsoring Agency: John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation, Chicago, IL.
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- Microfiche. [Washington D.C.]: ERIC Clearinghouse microfiches : positive.
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- Other authors/contributors:
- Illinois State Univ., Normal. Center for the Study of Educational Finance
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- ERIC
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- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
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- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1923
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- Published
- Publication date:
- 1913
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