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employment earnings (Tables.58 and 81).

TABLE 80.--Number and percentage distribution of households reporting nonfarm
employment income, by nonfarm work income class and race, 433 rural households,
 North and West Florida, 1956


 : Family race
 Nonfarm work All
 income class : households t
 (dollars) White Nonwhite

 Number Percent Number Percent Number Perfcent

 1- 249 : 39 9.0 18 6.1 21 15,1
 250- 499 : 45 10.4 26 8.9 19 13.7
 500- 749 16 3.7 7 2,4 9 6.5
 750- 999 z 28 6.5 3 4.4 15 10
 1,000-1,499 4 2 9.7 25 8.5 17 12.2
 1,500-1,999 : 33 7.6 19 6.5 14 10,1
 2,000-2,999 : 99 22.9 65 22.1 34 24.4
 3,000-3,999 : 42 9.7 38 12.9 4 2.9
 4,000-4,999 : 36 8.3 32 10.9 4 2.9
 5,000-7,499 : 37 8.5 35 11.9 2 1.4
 7,500-9,999 11 2.5 11 3.7
 10O000 and over : 5 1.2 5 1,7 .. **

 Total : 433 100.0 294 100,0 139 100.0


 No consistent association existed between family earnings from non-

farm employment and age of the family head. There was, however, a marked

difference in the proportions of households in the lower and higher income
classes between those households whose family heads were under 50 and those

whose heads were over 50 years of age. Among those households whose family

heads were less than 50 years of age, 15 percent reported incomes below $500

and 16 percent above $5,000, Of those households whose family heads were over

50 years of age, 26 percent reported less than $500 and 7 percent reported over

$5,000.

 Relatively few (33 percent) of the 1- and 2-member households reported

income from nonfarm employment. Among the households with 3 or more members,