Excerpt from Studies of Family Living in the United States and Other Countries: An Analysis of Material and Method For sometime the Social Science Research Council has been con cerned with the research needs and possibilities in the related fields of consumption and leisure. These fields offer an unusual opportunity for cooperative scientific effort because of the very comprehensiveness of their problems. The council's first investigations in these fields were initiated by Wesley C. Mitchell. In the spring of 1931 an interim committee on consumption and leisure was appointed under the chairmanship of the present writer. 2 Very early In the committee's work it became apparent that an intelligent appraisal of the research needs In this area of investigation must begin by ascertaining what has already been discovered concerning consumption through the many studies of family living made In the United States and In other countries. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.