Survey on paper consumption in households

Survey period: April -May 1997

Description:
We surveyed the consumption of paper products in 17 Swedish families. The results were tabulated: daily results with weekly totals. The consumption figures were based on pieces consumed. The paper qualities of interest included the most commonly found paper products in every day household use.

Family No.

1

2

3

4

5

6

7

8

9

10

11

12

13

14

15

16

17
Household tissue

2

7

8

2

9

4

1

-

11

9

3

3

12

4

20

1

6
Toilet tissue

20

12

13

12

10

6

1

10

20

16

10

5

24

13

21

13

11
Newspapers

15

17

20

18

40

17

19

20

23

38

20

20

40

26

36

16

38
Magazines

-

5

6

-

-

-

-

8

4

-

-

35

4

-

-

-

3
Advertising

35

13

19

38

21

14

38

29

34

24

13

35

13

32

51

25

18
Cardboard
packing

-

22

18

25

31

16

5

26

91

38

22

7

32

52

52

50

74
Size of family (persons)

3,9

4,65

4

4,3

2,35

3,8

3

4

4

3,15

5,85

4

5,25

3,85

5

3,25

3,95

The numbers of products consumed were converted to mass by measuring the weight of certain representative examples and estimating the average masses for each type of product.

Household tissue: 1 roll = 340 g
Toilet tissue: 1 roll = 170 g
Newspapers = 1 ex. 235 g (Trelleborgs Allehanda=130g and SDS=340g)
Magazines = 200 g each
Adverts: 37 g each
Board packages: 20 g each

  Consumption in 20 days
( kg per person)		 % of total consumption
Household tissue

0,28

0,07
Toilet tissue

0,51

0,12
Newspapers

2,69

0,66
Magazines

0,19

0,05
Advertising

0,24

0,06
Cardboard packing

0,16

0,04
Total

4,08

1,00

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1. Household tissue
2. Toilet tissue
3. Newspapers
4. Magazines
5. Advertising
6. Cardboard packing

 

The relative amounts of different paper products.
Paper products which are difficult to survey were excluded from this study.

wpe1.gif (3064 bytes) 1. Household tissue

2. Toilet tissue

3. Newspapers

4. Magazines

5. Advertising

6. Cardboard packing

 

This survey have been put together by Magnus Johansson and Peter Flink