Abstract
This paper presents how the housing expenditure including rent in the total household expenditure will vary in accordance with the size of a household, where the method of cross-section analysis using statistical data is applied. Japan's summary is as follows : Housing expenditures, unlike other items, show a tendency to decrease as household members increase. When the households are divided into three groups by tne number of persons constituting a houshold, the rent is the highest in the smallest group, the second in the largest one and the third in the middle one. The sum of food and housing expenditure accountes for about 50 percent of the total household expenditure, which has no relation to the number of person a household. The main data used in this paper are given in "Annual Report of the Family Income and Expenditure Survey in 1964" and "1964 National Survey of Family Income and Expenditure".
