A History of the Ministry of Information, 1939-46
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VII Other Difficulties
Housewives were asked: “Have you had any other trouble in buying vegetables recently that you feel the Ministry of Food should know about?”.
89.5% said that they had not or could not think of anything that they had not already said.
The remaining 10.7% answered as follows:
| Price of cauliflowers too high | 3.2 |
| Price of other vegetables too high | 5.0 |
| Too much favouritism among shop-keepers | .7 |
| Quality of potatoes poor | .4 |
| Miscellaneous | 1.4 |
| No complaint | 89.3 |
| Sample: | 2535 |
It should be noted that the 3.2% who mentioned the price of cauliflowers were not the same people as did so in answer to the previous question about difficulties in buying. Altogether 8.2% mentioned cauliflowers when the results of both questions are added.