Standard of living of farm labourers

Abstract

The study revealed that (1) as income increased the percentage expenditure on food decreased and vice versa (2) at all levels of income, the percentage expenditure on clothing, dwelling, fuel and light, remained more or less the same. The percentage expenditure on luxuries has shown a direct relationship with the changes in income. Thus the d >mestic expenditure pattern of the farm labourers has shown that it is in confirmity with the Engel's Law of Consumption.