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The Hired Farm Working Force of 1983: A Statistical Profile

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In 1983, about 2.6 million people 14 years of age and older did farmwork for wages and salary. The work force was 73-percent white, 13-percent Hispanic, and 14-percent black and other races. Fifty percent of all hired farmworkers were under 25 years old, and 78 percent were male. At the time of the survey, 38 percent of the farmworkers resided in the South, 28 percent in the West, 26 percent in the Midwest, and 7 percent in the Northeast. The average annual earnings in 1983 were $4,815 of which $3,138 came from farmwork. Migrants accounted for 9 percent of all hired farmworkers. The number of farmworkers has not changed much over the last 10 years.

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  • Pollack, Susan L., 1986. "The Hired Farm Working Force of 1983: A Statistical Profile," Agricultural Economic Reports 305527, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uerser:305527
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.305527
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    1. Findeis, Jill L. & Chitose, Yoshimi, 1994. "Hired Farm Labor: U.S. Trends and Survey Results for Pennsylvania," AE & RS Research Reports 257732, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology.
    2. Daberkow, Stan G. & Whitener, Leslie A., 1986. "Agricultural Labor Data Sources: An Update," Miscellaneous Publications 321976, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.

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