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TABLE 9.--Percentage distribution of persons 14 years of age and older by phys-
iJal capacity for work and by sex and race, 730 rural households, North and
 West Florida, 1956


 : Population 14 years of age and older

 Physical :
 capacity : Total White Nonwhite
 for work

 :Total: Male, Female: Totals. Male,. .emaler.Total Male: Female


 SPet. Pct. Pct. Pet. Pct. Pct. Pet. Pct. Pet.

No limitation : 74.3 71.7 76.7 74.4 70.9 77.9 74.0 73.4 74.4

Light work only: 12.3 13.5 11.3 12.0 13.8 10.2 13.0 12,8 13.2

Unable to work : 6.6 8.5 4.9 6.5 8.2 4.9 6.9 9.2 5.1

Not reported : 6.8 6.3 7.1 7.1 7.1 7.0 6.1 4.6 7.3

 Total :100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0 100.0



 Population by household.--Average family size by type of household

and race is shown in Table 10. Family size averaged slightly less than 4

members for the 730 households. On the average, farm families were consid-

erably larger than nonfarm families. Within farm households, commercial farm

families averaged the smallest in size with part-time farm families the

largest. This was true for both white and nonwhite households, although, as

mentioned earlier, nonwhite families were substantially larger than white

families for all household types.

 While family size averaged approximately 4 persons, a relatively

large proportion of the households had 6 or more members (Table 11). House-

holds of 6 or more members accounted for 18 percent of all white households

compared with 31 percent of nonwhite households. White families of 2, 3, and

4 members were especially numerous, as were nonwhite families of 8 or more