Family Living Trends in North Dakota

are furnishing and appliance purchases and non-farm vehicle purchases. For the purpose of this publication, some of the expense items are consolidated (Tables 1 and 2). The expense items that will be discussed are housing, food, medical care and insurance, transportation, clothing, education, personal purchases and recreation, contributions and gifts, and childcare and non-farm interest expense. We will look at the level of spending in recent years, the percentage of total farm family household living expenses and the overall trend for the past eight years for these items.