AGRICULTURAL WAGES IN BENGAL AND BIHAR 67 TABLE II DISTRIBUTION OF POPULATION BY MONTHLY PER CAPITA EXPENDITURE CLASSES IN THE STATE OF BIHAR, 1967-68 Monthly per capita Total con- Population Percentage Expenditure Percentage of expenditure classes sumption of popula' (In rupees) expenditure (In rupees) expenditure tion (In rupees) 0-8 6.90 104 1.25 718 0.26 8-11 9.84 204 2.45 2 007 0.72 11-13 12.05 327 3.94 3 940 1.42 13-15 13.91 400 4.82 5 564 2.01 15-18 16.59 609 7.33 10 103 3.64 18-21 14.42 760 9.15 14 759 5.32 21-24 22.41 734 8.84 16 449 5.93 24-28 25.85 841 10.12 21 740 7.83 28-34 30.67 1 099 13.23 33 706 12.15 34-43 38.08 1 317 15.85 50 151 18.07 43-55 49.19 788 9.49 38 762 13.97 55-75 62.27 820 9.87 51 061 18.40 75 and above 93.82 304 3.66 28521 10.28 All 8 307 100.00 2 77 481 100.00 SOURCE: NSS 22nd Round capita expenditure groups for three districts of Buchanan's survey in 1810-1813, namely, Bhagalpur^, Patna-Gaya and Shahabad. It was presumed that the three districts represented the average for Bihar. Accordingly, the table was used to draw one Lorenz curve by pooling the data FIGURE I LT«nx Curvt en Consumtr €xptnd(tur« (n Bihar iai(-(3 € 1967-68