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TABLE 24.--Number and percentage distribution of farm population 14 years of
age and older reporting work on home farm by age and sex, 368 farm households,
 North and West Florida, 1956


 : Population 14 years of age and older


 : Male : Female
 Age : :___

 Total Reporting Total Reporting
 : : work : : work


 : Number Percent Number Percent

14 years : 30 56.7 20 15.0
15 19 years : 108 56.5 77 35.1
20 24 years 20 65.0 25 36.0
25 29 years 21 71.4 23 26.1
30 34 years 22 86.4 29 13.8
35 39 years 36 83.3 56 33.9
40 44 years 45 84.4 68 25.0
45 49 years 67 83.6 56 28.6
50 54 years 44 90.9 32 18.8
55 59 years 35 91.4 28 21.4
60 64 years 27 92.6 35 34.3
65 69 years 33 72.7 37 24.3
70 74 years 23 87.0 16 18.8
75 years and over : 23 56.5 21 4.8
Not ascertained 1 100.0 5 20.0

 Total : 535 75.5 528 26.3



The fuller employment of the white population is most noticeable in the age

classes ranging from 30 to 55 years in which white persons averaged about 9

months compared with less than 7 months for nonwhite persons. The length of

time worked by the male population averaged nearly twice as much as that worked

by the female population, 8.8 months to 4.5 months.

 Work on other farms in the survey area is mainly seasonal in character;

it is related to the harvesting of cotton and tobacco crops. Less than 10 per-

cent of the 270 individuals reporting farm wage work were employed full time

(Table 27). Almost 60 percent were employed less than 9 weeks. Two-fifths of