PRIFACE


 Public interest in the Rural Development Program and in resource

 use adjustment potentials for low-income problem areas has prompted a plan

 for publication of a series of three reports concerning a survey of rural

 households in North and West Florida.

 The first of two scheduled mimeographed reports appeared in October

 1958 under the title "Sources and levels of Income, Rural Households, North

 and West Florida, 1956" (Mimeo. Report No, 59-4, Department of Agricultural

 Economics, Florida Agricultural Experiment Station).

 This, the second report, contains basic data concerning the people

 in the surveyed households, their resources, and the way in which their

 resources are utilized. It contains the statistics that will form the basis

 for completion of a major objective of the project, namely, "To relate the

 characteristics, organization and utilization of resources to sources of

 income, levels of income, and levels of living." So that each mimeographed

 report may be substantially self-contained, the sections entitled "Description

 of the Area" and "Method of Procedure" are the same in each report.

 A final printed report is planned. It will analyze and summarize

 the findings of the study and will draw upon basic statistics contained in

 the mimeographed reports.

 Many people have contributed to this report including many rural

residents of North and West Florida who have provided information. The

project is under the general direction of Dr. H. G. Hamilton, Head, Department

of Agricultural Economics, Florida Agricultural Experiment Stations, and

Max M. Tharp, Farm Economics Research Division, Agricultural Research Service,

Dr. R. E. L. Greene of the Florida Agricultural Experiment Stations and