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How many of the informant's coupons had been spent on other people

Pooled coupons

A number of informants put some or all of their coupons into a family supply, or ‘pool’. This was defined as a collection of the family’s coupons used for any of its members. Where coupons were lent and repaid, but each person's supply kept separately, this was not counted as a pool.

Informants were asked whether they had put any of their coupons into a family pool and whether they had bought any garments for themselves from one (questions 11 or 12). It was found that it was impossible to get accurate information on the number of coupons put into and spent on informants out of family pools so this information was not asked for.

Table 4

Number of informants contributing to pools and using coupons from them

	MEN
	Number of men	Putting into pool		Buying out of pool
	Number of men	No.	%	No.	%
Whole sample	512	211	41	137	27
Occupation
Non-manual	104	49	47	31	30
Factory work	95	39	41	26	27
Other manual work	165	71	43	44	27
Miscellaneous	61	22	36	17	28
Unoccupied	87	30	34	19	22
Whether dependents
Dependents	456	207	45	133	29
No dependents	56	4	7	4	7
Time since demobilisation
Under 2 months	172	59	34	36	21
2 and under 3 months	136	65	48	38	28
3 months and over	204	87	43	63	31
	WOMEN
	Number of women	Putting into pool		Buying out of pool
	Number of women	No.	%	No.	%
Whole sample	245	28	11	15	6
Time since demobilisation
Under 2 months	35	3	9	2	6
2 and under 3 months	58	5	9	6	10
3 months and over	152	20	13	7	5

Many more men had contributed to a family pool than had used coupons from one, at the time of the interview.

Many more men with dependents used pools than men without dependents.

A very much smaller proportion of the women than of the men had contributed to a pool or spent coupons from one.

Coupons spent on other members of the informant's family and/or on household goods, where no coupons were pooled .

Those who did not contribute coupons to a family pool were asked whether any of their coupons had been spent on clothes for other members of their family and/or on household goods (question 13). The number of coupons spent in this way was recorded.

A member of the family was defined as a relation with whom the informant was living.

Table 5

Have any of your coupons been spent on household goods or on clothes for other members of your family? (Where no coupons were pooled)

	MEN
	Number of men	Yes	No	Don’t know	% saying yes	Number of coupons spent	% total coupons received *
Whole sample	512	108	182	11	21	2,110	3.6
Occupation
Non-manual	104	18	37	-	17	355	3.0
Factory work	95	18	36	2	19	332	3.0
Other manual work	165	37	53	4	22	930	4.9
Miscellaneous	61	18	19	2	30	259	3.7
Unoccupied	87	17	37	3	20	234	2.4
Whether dependents
Dependents	456	102	137	10	22	2,011	3.8
No dependents	56	6	45	1	11	9	1.2
Time since demobilisation
Under 2 months	172	34	74	5	20	526	2.7
2 and under 3 months	136	28	42	1	21	543	3.5
3 months and over	204	46	6	5	22	1,041	4.3
	WOMEN
	Number of women	Yes	No	Don’t know	% saying yes	Number of coupons spent	% total coupons received
Whole sample	245	109	99	9	45	2,000	4.7
Time since demobilisation
Under 2 months	35	12	20	-	34	142	2.1
2 and under 3 months	58	23	27	3	40	445	4.5
3 months and over	152	74	52	6	49	1,413	5.3

* As no information was obtained from two men as to the total number of coupons received in calculating these percentages it was assumed that they would have received the average number for their groups, e.g. there was no information for one unoccupied man. The average number of coupons received by unoccupied men was 9,681 ÷ 86 = 113 (see Table 1). 113 + 9,681 = 9,794. 234 is 2.4% of 9,794.

Coupons spent outside the informant's family

To complete the picture of expenditure all informants were asked whether they spent any of their coupons outside their own families (question 14) and the number of coupons spent in this way was recorded.

Table 6

Have you given or lent any coupons to people outside your family or bought presents with your coupons for them?

	MEN
	Number of men	Yes	No	Not answered	% saying yes	Number of coupons given or lent	% total * coupons received
Whole sample	512	40	453	19	8	667	1.1
Occupation
Non-manual	104	9	92	3	9	108	.9
Factory work	95	5	89	1	5	54	.5
Other manual work	165	14	143	8	8	264	1.4
Miscellaneous	61	4	53	4	7	125	1.8
Unoccupied	87	8	76	3	9	116	1.2
Whether dependents
Dependents	456	30	407	19	7	461	.9
No dependents	56	10	46	-	18	206	3.2
Time since demobilisation
Under 2 months	172	10	156	6	6	218	1.1
2 and under 3 months	136	9	120	7	7	138	.9
3 months and over	204	21	177	6	10	311	1.3
	WOMEN
	Number of women	Yes	No	Not answered	% saying yes	Number of coupons given or lent	% total coupons received
Whole sample	245	45	194	6	18	529	1.3
Time since demobilisation
Under 2 months	35	6	29	-	17	59	.9
2 and under 3 months	58	10	46	2	17	123	1.2
3 months and over	152	29	119	4	19	347	1.3

* See footnote to Table 5

A smaller proportion of coupons was spent outside the informants' families that was spent on them. Those with no dependents spent a rather higher proportion of their coupons in this way than those with dependents.

The men and women spent about the same proportion of their coupons outside their families, although a higher proportion of women than of men had spent some coupons in this way.

Total expenditure of coupons on others

It is not possible to estimate exactly the total number of coupons spent by the informants on other people since the number of coupons that had been pooled by the informants and then spent on others is not known. The number of coupons excluding pooled coupons, that was spent by informants on their families and/or on household goods, and the number of coupons spent by informants on people outside their families, may be added to show the total number of coupons that the informants had spent on other people, apart from pooled coupons so spent.

Table 7

Total of coupons spent on others excluding pooled coupons

	MEN
	Number of men	Coupons spent on others	% of total coupons received
Whole sample	512	2,777	4.7
Occupation
Non-manual	104	463	3.9
Factory work	95	386	3.5
Other manual work	165	1,194	6.3
Miscellaneous	61	384	5.5
Unoccupied	87	350	3.6
Whether dependents
Dependents	456	2,472	4.7
No dependents	56	305	4.7
Time since demobilised
Under 2 months	172	744	3.8
2 and under 3 months	136	681	4.4
3 months and over	204	1,352	5.6
	WOMEN
	Number of women	Coupons spent on others	% of total coupons received
Whole sample	245	2,529	6.0
Time since demobilised
Under 2 months	35	201	3.0
2 and under 3 months	58	568	5.7
3 months and over	152	1,760	6.6

About 5% of all the men’s coupons and 6% of the women’s were spent on other people, excluding pooled coupons. Men with and without dependents in all spent equal amounts of their coupons on other people, apart from coupons that were pooled.

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