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 From the standpoint of total households in each able-bodied male

 group, relatively few of the households with no able-bodied males reported

 income from this source. As the number of able-bodied males increased from 1

 to 4, the proportions of households reporting this source increased. This was

 the same general pattern as found under farm work income.

 The proportion reporting medium to high incomes was substantially

 lower for households having no able-bodied male than for those having one or

 more. As the number of able-bodied males increased from 1 to 4, the proportion

 of households reporting incomes above $3,000 increased from 31 percent to 60

 percent. This relationship did not exist among households reporting farm wage

 income.

 Only about one-fourth of all households having no able-bodied females

14 to 64 years of age reported nonfarm employment income whereas about three-

fourths of those with one or more able-bodied females reported this income

source. Nearly two-thirds of the households reporting had one able-bodied

female member. The number of able-bodied females above one does not appear to

be associated with the nonfarm employment income level.

 Classification of households reporting nonfarm work income by family

type (Table 83) again reveals the predominance of Family Types 1 and 2, in

which the male head is rated as "fully employable" or "employable." Type 7

families with no employable male present accounted for 15 percent of the hou3e-

holds reporting nonfarm income. The distribution of cases among the medium-

to-high income levels was greater for Type 1 than for Type 2 families. Propor-

tions in the higher income levels were substantially higher for both Types 1

and 2 than for Type 7. Th3 remaining family types aggregate less than 10 per-

cent of households reporting nonfarm employment income.

 Less than half of the households headed by individuals with less than