...The results showed that the Engel coefficient dropped neatly from 71.4% in the first class to 64.9% in the fifth class, confirming that the Engel law holds here as well. Since Engel, in 1875, Carol D. Wright, who was the Director of the Bureau of Labor Statistics in the United States, confirmed the Engel law using data on working families in Massachusetts, and this law has been known to hold fairly universally. When the Engel coefficient was calculated for each quintile of annual income from data on Japan's 1981 household survey, it was 0.32 (32%) for the first quintile, followed by 0.31, 0.29, 0.27, and 0.23. ... *Some of the terminology that mentions "Wright, CD" is listed below. Source | Heibonsha World Encyclopedia 2nd Edition | Information |
…その結果は第1階級71.4%から第5階級64.9%まできれいにエンゲル係数は低下し,ここでもエンゲル法則が成立することが確かめられた。エンゲル以降,1875年にアメリカの労働統計局長官であったライトCaroll D.Wrightがマサチューセッツ州の労働者世帯のデータを用いて,エンゲル法則を確かめたのをはじめ,かなり普遍的にこの法則が成立することが知られている。日本の1981年の家計調査資料から,年間収入5分位階級別のエンゲル係数を求めると,第1分位0.32(32%),以下0.31,0.29,0.27,0.23となる。… ※「Wright,C.D.」について言及している用語解説の一部を掲載しています。 出典|株式会社平凡社世界大百科事典 第2版について | 情報 |
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