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lhe number of farm residents was calculated to be down about 4 percent (260,000) from the 1978 figure, according to estimates produced jointly by USDA’s Economics and Statistics Service and Commerce’s Bureau of the Census. However, such a decline may represent a slight variation in the sample rather than a real decline in the total farm population.
The farm population has proportionally fewer women, more whites, more husbandwife families and a higher fertility level than the nonfarm population. In addition the farm population has a higher average age and a lower average income.
The number of farm residents declined more slowly in the seventies than in earlier decades. Between 1970 and 1979, the farm population lost an average of 2.8 percent and its residents per year, much less than the 4.8 percent average annual rate of loss between 1960 and 1970.
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