| Popis: |
The Hired Farm Working Force of 1973 (HFWF) consisted of about 2.7 million persons 14 years of age and over who did some farmwork for cash wages during the year. This was a slight decrease, about 5 percent, from the 2.8 million in 1972 following a 2 year increase. Members of the 1973 HFWF were mostly young (median age 24), white (86 percent), male (79 percent), persons living in nonfarm places (75 percent). They earned an average of $1,412 in cash wages, or $14.85 a day for 95 days of farm wagework. Only 27 percent were engaged chiefly in farm wagework. Of these, 421,000 were year-round workers, who were the most fully employed and highest paid, averaging 310 days of farm wagework and earning $4,696. About 50 percent (primarily housewives and students) were not in the labor force most of the year. About 203,000, or 8 percent of the total, were domestic migratory workers. This was an increase of 10 percent from 184,000 in 1972 and continued the increase which began in 1971 after a continuous decline in numbers since 1965. The remainder of the hired farmworkers, the nonmigratory, decreased by 6 percent over 1972. |
