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to have been relatively fewest from white part-time farms followed by nonwhite

part-time farms.

 As mentioned earlier, the proportion of households headed by females

was twice as great among nonwhite as among white families. In both racial

groups (Table 13), these households were predominately nonfarm units.


TABLE 13.--Number of households by sex and race of household head and by type
 of household, 730 rural households, North and West Florida, 1956


 : Type of household


 Head of : : Farms
 household :All _
 : households: : : :Nonfarm
 All
 farm:Residential:Part-time Commercial:
 : : farms:
 : __

 : Number Number Number Number Number Number

Male heads:
 White : 443 267 56 42 169 176
 Nonwhite : 182 74 22 20 32 108

Female heads:
 White 53 16 8 .. 8 37
 Nonwhite : 52 11 5 1 5 41

 All households : 730 368 91 63 214 362



 Among the white population (Table 14), households headed by males

and females had approximately the same average number of children 14 years of

age and older at home and approximately the same average number of relatives

and unrelated persons in the household. Among the nonwhite households, how-

ever, the average number of children, other relatives, and other persons was

substantially higher for households headed by females than for households

headed by males.

 Survey households are classified by "family type" in Tables 15, 16,