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Download full textSmith, Leslie Whitener; Rowe, Gene – 1978
The Food Stamp Program allows low-income households to purchase a nutritionally adequate diet through normal channels of trade. Because of the generally low income of hired farmworkers, food stamp assistance is an important addition to the economic and nutritional status of these workers and their families. This report presents a socioeconomic…
Descriptors: Age, Agricultural Laborers, Blacks, Family Characteristics
Rowe, Gene A.; Smith, Leslie Whitener – 1974
Information on the size, composition, and family income of farm wageworker households (any household with at least 1 person 14 years of age or over who performed farm wagework at any time during the year, even if for only 1 day) in 1971 is presented. Households were classified as: (1) regular--households with at least 1 member who performed 150…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Comparative Analysis, Economics, Employment Patterns
Smith, Leslie Whitener – 1976
Differences between Spanish-origin and other ethnic groups of farm wageworkers were investigated by comparative analyses of age, sex, education, migratory status, employment, and earnings. Farmworkers were defined as persons 14 years of age and over in the civilian noninstitutional population who did farmwork for wages at some time during 1973,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, Agricultural Laborers, Anglo Americans
Rowe, Gene; Smith, Leslie Whitener – 1976
The report contains data pertaining to the number and distribution of U.S. farm wageworkers and their dependents who were eligible in 1973 for the national farmworker program under the 1973 Comprehensive Employment and Training Act's (CETA) Title III, Section 303 (a). Information is given by migratory status, ethnic group, earning, and region.…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Blacks, Economically Disadvantaged, Employment Statistics
Rowe, Gene; Smith, Leslie Whitener – 1976
The report presents data on the demographic, social, and economic characteristics of persons 14 years of age and over who did hired farmwork during 1975, and summarizes the pertinent changes and trends in the size, composition, earnings, and employment patterns of the hired farm working force. Information is given on the Spanish-origin, white,…
Descriptors: Age, Agricultural Laborers, Blacks, Employment Patterns
Smith, Leslie Whitener; Rowe, Gene – 1978
The report presents data on demographic, social and economic characteristics of 2.8 million persons 14 years of age and over who did farmwork for cash wages or salary in 1976, and summarizes some of the more pertinent changes in the size, composition, and employment patterns of hired farmworkers. Data, taken from a survey conducted by the Bureau…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Agricultural Laborers, Blacks, Employed Women
Smith, Leslie Whitener; Coltrane, Robert – 1981
Farmers and their families continue to provide the largest proportion of agricultural labor, but hired farmworkers are increasingly supplying a greater part of farm employment. This trend is expected to continue in the eighties with the hired labor proportion gradually increasing. Better information, including crucial individual state data on…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Compensation (Remuneration), Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Patterns
