$999 income class were equally divided between farm and nonfarm units; more

than 60 percent had one or two members; and the households averaged 2,7 members.

 As was shown earlier (Tables 16 and 17), approximately one-fourth of

 the survey households were headed by "fully employable" males and were desig-

 nated as Family Type 1. One-third of the households had an "employable" male

 member (either 45 to 64 years of age or under 45 with physical handicap but

 not disabled) and were designated as Family Type 2. Households with no employ-

 able male member present (Type 7) accounted for another one-third of total

 households. Together, these three family types constituted more than 90 percent

 of all families.

 The distribution of households by family type and income levels is

shown in Table 60, Among households of Family Type 1, 29 percent reported

incomes of less than $2,000 compared with 48 percent of the Type 2 families

and 84 percent of the Type 7 families. Conversely, proportions of these three

family types reporting incomes in excess of $5,000 were 20, 14, and 3 percent

for family Types 1, 2, and 7, respectively,

 Closely associated with family type was the presence or absence of

able-bodied males 14 years of age and older other than the family head, The

data indicate that as the number of able-bodied males per family increased, the

proportion of families in the lower income classes decreased, while proportions

in the three highest income classes increased. Among the 270 families with no

able-bodied males present, almost 80 percent reported less than $2,000 family

income compared with 29 percent of the families with three able-bodied males.

Only 4 percent of the families without able-bodied males reported incomes

greater than $5,000 compared with 34 percent of the families with three able-

bodied males.

 Among the families reporting no able-bodied females, 85 percent