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TABIL 65,--Distribution of farm households by family size groups and by net cash
 farm income class, North and West Florida, 1956


 : : Family members
 Net cash farm I -
 income class : Total : t 4 : t
 (dollars) : 9: I : : : 9
 : li 2 : 3 : 4 : 5 : 6 : 7 : 8 : and
 Si : : over
 ,_ .. 3 : 
 SNo. No, No_. No. LNo. No.. K2,. N1 No..

(,500) and over : 32 .. 5 8 8 6 .. 1 .
(.499)-(-250) t 24 .. 2 1 5 8 2 2 4 to
(-249)-(-l) : 79 5 21 7 16 10 6 6 6 2
 0- 249 : 85 5 27 15 13 5 4 3 10 3
 250- 499 : 32 1 9 5 5 1 4 2 5
 500- 999 : 42 1 10 10 8 8 1 4 ,. ..
 1,000-1,499 : 17 .. 6 ,, 5 1 2 2 1
 1,500-2,499 : 29 5 10 2 8 3 1
 2,500-4,999 : 21 1 4 2 4 4 3 1 2
 5,000 and over : 7 *. .. 1 1 2 2 *. 1 ..

 All classes : 368 13 89 59 67 53 27 22 33 5
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8-member families. Among the higher

portional numbers of families with 3,

incomes in excess of $500.


negative income classes, greater than pro-

4, 5, and 8 members reported negative cash


 Almost two-thirds of the households with no able-bodied males reported

cash farm incomes in the lowest negative and lowest positive classes. Rela-

tively more of the households having 1, 2, and 3 able-bodied males appeared in

the higher negative and higher positive income classes. Between households

having one or more able-bodied males, however, there was no consistent asso-

ciation between the number of males and income. The situation was essentially

the same with regard to the number of able-bodied females.

 As mentioned previously, Family Types 1, 2, and 7 constituted approxi-

mately 90 percent of the total survey families. This was true also among farm

families (Table 66) although Type 2 families were relatively more numerous and