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The Agricultural Work Force of 1987: A Statistical Profile

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  • Oliveira, Victor J.
  • Cox, E. Jane

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About 7.7 million people aged 14 and older were employed on U.S. farms at some time during 1987. Almost 2.5 million persons were hired farmworkers, 2.8 million operated farms, and about 3.6 million were unpaid farmworkers. Over 1 million, or 13 percent of the agricultural work force, engaged in more than one of these agricultural occupations during the year. Almost half of all operators and hired farmworkers did nonfarmwork at some point during 1987. Almost 70 percent of all unpaid workers did nonfarmwork during the year. Of the 5.4 million households containing an individual who did agricultural work during 1987, about 4.3 million were headed by a farmworker.

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  • Oliveira, Victor J. & Cox, E. Jane, 1989. "The Agricultural Work Force of 1987: A Statistical Profile," Agricultural Economic Reports 305544, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uerser:305544
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.305544
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    1. Oliveira, Victor J. & Cox, E. Jane, 1988. "The Agricultural Work Force of 1985: A Statistical Profile," Agricultural Economic Reports 305543, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
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    1. Findeis, Jill L. & Lass, Daniel A., 1992. "Farm Operator Off-farm Labor Supply and Hired Labor Use on Pennsylvania Farms," Staff Paper Series 256845, Pennsylvania State University, Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology.
    2. Ann K. Carruth & Lana Skarke & Barbara Moffett & Cynthia Prestholdt, 2002. "Nonfatal Injury Experiences among Women on Family Farms," Clinical Nursing Research, , vol. 11(2), pages 130-148, May.
    3. 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.
    4. Oliveira, Victor J., 1992. "A Profile of Hired Farmworkers, 1990 Annual Averages," Agricultural Economic Reports 305547, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.

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