Podstawowe zmiany w poziomie i strukturze konsumpcji w Polsce Ludowej
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1970
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WydziaĆ Prawa i Administracji UAM
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Basic Changes in Level and Structure of Consumption in the Polish People's Republic
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The tendencies discussed in the paper pertain to the consumption resulting
from personal incomes during the 25-years' period in the Polish People's Republic.
A constant growth of incomes of the population has been found to be accompanied
by an increase of the general level of consumption per capita and essential changes
have been observed in the structure of consumption this being true as for town as
for countryside. The systematic decrease in the consumption of goods of the lower
order has been stated to be followed by a constant increase in purchases of the
goods that meet the demands of the higher order. This increase has appeared so
significant that in spite of the quantitative as well as of the qualitative development on the diet pattern the contribution of means spent on food to the total expenditure
has been stated to decrease systematically.
A continued increase in consumption and rapid changes of its structure in farmers'
families have resulted in a marked tendency to diminishing differences
between the town and countryside consumption patterns. Contrary to the pre-war
period during which these differences were very deep almost full equlization has
been obtained as far as the food consumption is concerned, a fairly good resemblance
being achieved in the purchase pattern of clothes, footwear, underclothing and
the differences have been considerably reduced concerning expenses on personal
hygiene, health protection, culture and education. A decrease in differences has
been also observed as far as the household equipment is concerned, such as furniture,
televisors, radio sets, washing machines, sewing machines, vacuum cleaners and
other house utensils as well.
As regards the consumption of foods the following tendencies have been observed:
democratization of consumption as shown by the decrease in differences of
the diet pattern between different social and professional groups of the population,
an increasing contributions of the richer in vitamins and animal proteins, foods of
higher quality to the diet pattern, the high rate of increase in the food consumption
combined with its constant denaturalization especially in the country.
As far as the level of consumption is concerned Poland has approached that
of the highly developed countries. The differences that are still being observed
especially those concerning the consumption of fish, cheeses, fruits and some vegetables
have no structural character and can be eliminated in a relatively short time.
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Ruch Prawniczy, Ekonomiczny i Socjologiczny 32, 1970, z. 3, s. 271-291