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Download full textNewman, Mark; And Others – 1987
It is difficult to compare the United States and European Community (EC) agricultural sectors for several reasons. For one thing, the European community is an economic association of 12 independent nations, each of which has its own national methods of data collection and statistical presentation. The problem of comparing the two sectors is…
Descriptors: Agricultural Production, Agriculture, Comparative Analysis, Employment Patterns
Woodworth, Roger C.; And Others – 1978
Personal interviews with 344 randomly selected farm operators in three Tennessee counties revealed differences in the characteristics, aspirations, and attitudes of large, small, part time, and retired farmers. These differences are important in understanding agricultural potentials, the impact of agricultural programs, and the future structure of…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adoption (Ideas), Age, Agriculture
PDF pending restorationBanks, Vera J.; DeAre, Diana – Current Population Reports, 1980
Based on the current definition for farm population (all persons living in rural territory on places which in the reporting year had, or normally would have had, sales of agricultural products of $1,000 or more), an average of 6,241,000 persons lived on farms in the United States in 1979, a drop of 2.8% from the 1978 figures. Whites constituted…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Agriculture, Birth Rate, Census Figures
Banks, Vera J.; And Others – 1977
Prepared cooperatively by the Bureau of the Census and the Economic Research Service of the U.S. DeparLment of Agriculture, this document presents narrative and tabular data on: demographic and social characteristics of the farm population; economic characteristics of the farm population; revision of farm population processing procedures; and…
Descriptors: Age, Agriculture, Birth Rate, Census Figures
Banks, Vera J.; DeAre, Diana – Current Population Reports, 1979
Based on the new farm definition (places of 10 or more acres if at least $50 worth of agricultural products were sold in the reporting year, and places of under 10 acres if at least $250 worth of agricultural products were sold), 6,501,000 persons, or 3% of the nation's population, lived on farms for the 12-month period centered on April 1978.…
Descriptors: Age, Agriculture, Birth Rate, Blacks
Banks, Vera J.; DeAre, Diana – Current Population Reports, 1981
Based on the current definition for farm population (all persons living in rural territory or places which in the reporting year had, or normally would have had, sales of agricultural products of $1,000 or more), an average of 6,051,000 persons, or 2.7% of the total population lived on farms in the United States in 1980, a drop of 190,000 below…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Agriculture, Birth Rate, Blacks
Hendler, Charles I.; Reid, J. Norman – 1980
The study described the patterns of government outlay to U.S. metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas for 86% of the $499 billion of federal outlays and loan guarantees made in fiscal 1978 to individual counties in the 50 states. Between metropolitan and non-metropolitan areas there were considerable variations in outlays to programs in seven…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Capital Outlay (for Fixed Assets), Comparative Analysis, Economic Development
