Download or read book Family Income and Expenditures written by Gertrude S. Weiss and published by . This book was released on 1939 with total page 816 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The study of consumer purchases, planned in the latter part of 1935 and inaugurated early in 1936, was undertaken to provide data more comprehensive than any available before on the way American families earn and spend their incomes.