Food Stamp Participation of Hired Farmworker Families. Agriculture Economic Report No. 403.

Autor/inn/en	Smith, Leslie Whitener; Rowe, Gene
Institution	Department of Agriculture, Washington, DC.
Titel	Food Stamp Participation of Hired Farmworker Families. Agriculture Economic Report No. 403.
Quelle	(1978), (76 Seiten) PDF als Volltext kostenfreie Datei Verfügbarkeit
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Monographie
Schlagwörter	Age; Agricultural Laborers; Blacks; Family Characteristics; Family Income; Geographic Regions; Low Income Groups; Migrant Workers; Participation; Socioeconomic Background; Spanish Speaking; Tables (Data); Whites + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Alter; Lebensalter; Agricultural labourers; Landarbeiter; Black person; Schwarzer; Familieneinkommen; Wanderarbeiter; Teilnahme; Sozioökonomische Lage; Tabelle; White; Weißer
Abstract	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 profile of approximately 207,000 hired farmworker families (including 9,000 migrant families) participating in the Food Stamp Program in November 1975 and identifies various factors related to program participation. Family income and size, ethnicity, and region were examined through comparative analyses of farmworker families, farmworker food stamp families, and U.S. food stamp families. Data were obtained in December 1975 from the annual Hired Farm Working Force survey and from the December 1975 Current Population Survey. These families contained approximately 1.1 million family members, averaging 5.3 members per family. Hired farmworker families were almost twice as likely to participate in the Food Stamp Program as all U.S. families. Family income and size, ethnicity, and region were highly associated with farmworker family participation. In addition, the socioeconomic characteristics of farmworker food stamp families differed considerably from those of all hired farmworker families and all U.S. families receiving food stamps. (Author/NQ)
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC