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TABLE 72.--Distribution of households reporting income from work on other farms,
by family type and farm work income class, 167 rural households, North and West
 Florida, 1956


 : Family type
 Farm work : House- :
 income class : holds : : : : :
 (dollars) : 2 3 4 : 5 : 6 7 8

 IO NO. NO. 1o. o o. N o. Lio. No

 1- 249 : 84 16 32 3 5 1 .. 25 2
 250- 499 : 26 7 13 2 1 1 2 ..
 500- 749 10 .. 6 .. 2 1 1
 750- 999 : 10 5 2 .. 1 .. .. 2
 1,000-1,499 : 16 6 3 1 1 3 .. 1 1
 1,500-1,999 : 10 4 5 .. .. .. .. 1
 2,000-2,999 : 8 4 4 .. .. .. .. ..
 3,000-3,999 : 1 1 .. .. .. *. -*. ..
 4,000-4,999 1 1 .. .. .. .. .. *a
 5,000-7,499 : 1 .. 1 ,. .. .. .. .. ..
 7,500-9,999 : .. .. .. .. .. .. ..
10,000 and over : .. .. .. *. ** **

 Total 167 44 66 6 8 7 .. 32 4
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aSee Table 15 for description of family types.


wage work and education of the family

less than $250 from this source range


head (Table 73). Proportions reporting

from 40 percent of the households whose


family head had no formal schooling to 70 percent of the households whose

family head had completed 7 years of school, Proportions reporting farm w&ge

income above $1,000 ranged from 19 percent of the households wherein the family

head had completed 8 grades to 29 percent of the households whose family head

had completed 1 to 3 years of high school. Viewed from the standpoint of tot.l

survey households, however, a consistent association existed between the pro-

portion of households reporting farm waze income and the educational level of

the family head. For example, 36 percent of the households whose family heads

had no formal schooling reported farm wage earnings compared with 4 percent of