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Cox, E. Jane; Oliveira, Victor J. – 1988
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…
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Employment Patterns, Family Characteristics, Farm Occupations