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 High nonfarm employment income was associated and interrelated to the

young-adult age groups and the groups with medium to high levels of education.

Males consistently outearned females. Nonfarm employment earnings differed

little between individuals with no physical limitation and those reporting

physical handicaps.

 Nonemployment income including rents, interest, unemployment compen-

sation, military benefits, and welfare payments constituted one-fifth of the

total cash income. More than half of the households received an average of

$925 from this source.

 The distribution of this type of income was strongly influenced by

 the incidence of welfare payments. One- and two-member families and families

 with no employable male were well represented among the households receiving

 nonemployment income. The number of cases increased steadily with age of the

 head of the family and decreased with the increasing level of education of the

 head of the family.

 There were substantial differences in the level-of-living facilities

 available in the homes and on the homesteads of the sample households in 1956.

 In general, more farm households had the selected facilities than did nonfarm

 households and more white households had them than did nonwhite households.

 The frequency with which households reported level-of-living items increased

 with the level of positive cash income except in the highest income classes

 for both nonfarm and nonwhite families. In these categories, the number of

 cases was too small. Households with negative cash family incomes had facil-

 ities with approximately the same frequency as did families with incomes of

 $4,000, partly because of temporary and abnormal income conditions in 1956.