Documents social, economic, educational, and health conditions of Wisconsin's approximately 3,000 migrant farmworkers and dependents during 1978 and 1981. Finds lower income, less schooling, and poorer health than other farmworkers and general population. Discusses definitions of migrant farmworkers and difficulties in counting migrant population.…

A survey of Wisconsin's migrant workers was conducted to obtain demographic information, to determine unmet health care needs, and to make recommendations for migrant health services based on those needs. A stratified random sample of 408 workers was selected, representing about 10% of the migrant workers in Wisconsin in the 1978 season; 262 of…