Book Description

Excerpt from Family Economics Review, 1995, Vol. 8 For food and health care expenses, authoritative bases exist that may be used to calculate individual household member shares. The 1992 usda food plans show the share of food expenses attributable to individual family members by age and household income level These member food budget shares were applied to estimated household food expenditures to determine food expenses on a child. Health care ex penses were allocated to each family member based on data from the 1987 National Medical Expenditure Survey This survey contains data on the proportion of health care expenses attributable to individual family members. These member budget shares for health care were applied to estimated house hold health care expenditures to deter mine expenses on a child. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.