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Farm-Operator Family Level-of-Living Indexes for Counties of the United States, 1930, 1940, 1945, and 1950

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  • Hagood, Margaret Jarman

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Excerpts from the report: In 1950, the average level of living of farm-operator families in the United States was 22 percent above the level in 1945, according to county indexes compiled by the Bureau of Agricultural Economics. With 1945 used as a base of 100, the average county in the United States had an index of 75 in 1930, of 79 in 1940, and of 122 in 1950. Between 1940 and 1950, the increase in this measure of level of living of farm-operator families was 54 percent. County data from the last Census of Agriculture have been used to construct indexes for 1950, and similar data were used from an earlier census to compute indexes for 1930 that have not previously been published. The items on which these farm-operator family level-of-living indexes are based are the following: (1) Percentage of farms with electricity; (2) percentage of farms with telephones; (3) percentage of farms with automobiles; and (4) average value of products sold or traded in the year preceding the census (adjusted for changes in purchasing power of the farmer's dollar). Data on these items from the Censuses of Agriculture were combined into indexes by methods explained in the Appendix of this report.

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  • Hagood, Margaret Jarman, 1952. "Farm-Operator Family Level-of-Living Indexes for Counties of the United States, 1930, 1940, 1945, and 1950," Miscellaneous Publications 335396, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
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    1. Nancy Rudd & Kristin Kline, 1976. "Money value of consumption and income of rural families: Two measures of economic status," Social Indicators Research: An International and Interdisciplinary Journal for Quality-of-Life Measurement, Springer, vol. 3(2), pages 217-236, September.
    2. Gray, James R. & Goodsell, Wylie D., 1961. "Cattle Ranches: Organization, Costs, and Returns, Southwestern Nonmigratory Grazing Area, 1940-59," Agricultural Economic Reports 307151, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    3. Pennock, Jean L. & Brew, Margaret L. & Tillinghast, Rose C., 1954. "Farm Family Spending and Saving in Illinois, with a Comparison of Survey and Home-Accounts Data," Agricultural Information Bulletins 308705, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.

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