Income of Farm Wageworker Households in 1971

Gene A. Rowe and Leslie Whitener Smith

No 305535, Agricultural Economic Reports from United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service

Abstract: There were 2,012,000 households in 1971 that contained at least one person who performed farm wagework during the year. In terms of type of farm wagework, 81 percent of the households were seasonal farm wageworker households, 10 percent were regular, and 13 percent were year-round. Also 7 percent of all farm wageworker households had at least one member who performed migratory farm wagework. (Because some households had more than one type of farm wageworker, these percentages total to more than 100.) Farm wageworker households contained 9,108,000 persons and averaged 4.5 members per household. Of these total members, 2,550,000 (28 percent) performed farm wagework. Median family income for all farm wageworker households in 1971 was $5,712, slightly more than half that for all households in the Nation. Approximately 37 percent of the households had family incomes of $7,500 or more. About 29 percent of them contained six or more members.

Keywords: Labor; and; Human; Capital (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 58
Date: 1974-03
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.305535

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