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Banks, 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.; 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