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TABLE 60.-Distribution of households by type of family and family income class,
 730 rural households, North and West Florida, 1956


 SFamily typea
 Family : House- I__
 income class & holds : 3 t 2 3
 (dollars) : 2 3 3 4 2 5 : 6 : 7 t 8
 St t

 No. No. o. No. No.., No:. N. No.. ..

Negative : 22 6 11 1 1 1 2 .
 0- 999 196 13 59 3 5 .. 1 115
 1,000-1,999 : 187 31 53 4 4 7 1 81 6
 2,000-2,999 131 44 49 4 2 6 1 24 1
 3,000-3,999 65 25 31 .. .. 1 .. 5 3
 4,000-4,999 45 19 19 .. 3 2 .. 1 1
 5,000-7,499 : 62 28 26 ,. ,. 1 .. 6 1
 7,500-9,999 : 13 6 5 .. .. 1 .. .. 1
 10,000 and over : 9 2 6 .. .. *. 1

 Total : 730 174 259 12 15 19 3 235 13

 aSee Table 15 for description of family types.

reported incomes below $2,000. As the number of able-bodied females increased,

less than half of the families reported incomes below this level. Families

reporting incomes of $5,000 or more were largely families with one and two

able-bodied female members.

 Although educational attainments of household heads varied rather

widely in any given income class, the positive association of education and

income was clear in the survey households (Table 61), As education of the

family head increased, considerably larger proportions of the families reported

incomes in the higher classes. Among those families whose family head had

completed 4 years of schooling or less, only 3 percent reported incomes of more

than $5,000. When family heads had completed college, 55 percent of the

families were in income classes above this level, Between these extremes, the

proportions tended to increase steadily as educational levels rose.