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.