Re: [GBlist] House sizes

[Susannah <susannah@cyber-dyne.com>]

At 03:25 PM 1/6/2002 -0800, deumling@socrates.Berkeley.EDU wrote:
>using up all kinds of time I shouldn't spend on such matters

I know exactly what you mean.  <laughing>

>  I tallied all
>the square footage numbers of the households pictured in Peter Menzel's
>book I mentioned a few days back "Material World."  While not the kind of
>statistically rigorous approach you are probably looking for (and which
>certainly exists), here are a few numbers I came up with.
>
>Average per capita square feet for all 30 households featured: 186.3
>same for the 1/3 (10) with the least housing: 58.3
>same for middle 1/3: 129.4
>and for upper 1/3: 373 (though if the 4,850 square foot household in
>Kuwait is omitted, this shrinks to 337 square feet)

Thank you -- this at least gives me some idea...
Does anyone know where to look for something more thorough?

>I haven't entered the numbers into a spread sheet, but could get them to
>you if you were interested.

No, that's all right, although thanks very much for the offer.  But, hey, 
does the book give sources for anything like this?


>Reuben Deumling


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