According to data from the 1985 Agricultural Work Force Survey, over 13.5 million of the 17.6 million agricultural work force household members (77 percent) lived in households headed by a farm worker. Some farm workers worked on the farm as their primary job, whereas others primarily worked off the farm. Farm work was an occasional form of employment for an additional group of workers, primarily students and homemakers who were unemployed or not in the labor force most of the year. Most agricultural work force households do not depend totally on farm work for income. Thus, farm income cannot be completely equated with household income. Farm workers primarily employed in farm work headed about 29 percent of all agricultural work force households. Over one-third of all farm workers, or 5 million people, lived in these households, including almost half of all farm operators, 35 percent of all hired farm workers, and only 20 percent of all unpaid farm workers. Only 23 percent of those living in agricultural work force households actually lived on a farm. The more people depended on farm work for employment, the greater the likelihood of their living on a farm. (MN)