The relation between the ability to pay and the standard of living among farmers : a socio-economic study of 861 white farm families of Kentucky, Tennessee and Texas / by E.L. Kirkpatrick and J.T. Sanders.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kirkpatrick, E. L. (Ellis Lore), 1884-
Corporate Author: United States. Department of Agriculture
Other Authors: Sanders, J. T. (Jesse Thomas), 1889-
Format: Government Document Book
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Agriculture, 1926.
Series:Department bulletin (United States. Department of Agriculture) ; no. 1382.
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Table of Contents:
  • Scope of study. pp. 3.
  • Composition of families and households. pp. 4.
  • Classification of expenditures. pp. 5.
  • Significance of advancement goods as an index to standard of living. pp. 6.
  • Expenditures and goods used. pp. 8.
  • Comparison of expenditures among owners, tenants, and croppers
  • Comparisons with families of other localities and of other industries. pp. 9.
  • Distribution of average expenditures in relation to amount of total expenditures. pp. 10.
  • Cost-consumption unit and household-size index. pp. 12.
  • Application of the cost-consumption units. pp. 15.
  • Criteria of the ability of farmers to pay. pp. 17.
  • Ability of farmers to pay as related to standard of living. pp. 22.
  • Relation of factors influencing desires or demands of family to standard of living. pp. 23.
  • Further consideration of relation of factors by method of gross correlation. pp. 27.
  • Interrelation of factors and criteria used in analysis and consideration of other factors not accounted for by gross correlations. Multiple correlations. pp. 28.
  • Presentation of inferences or conclusions. pp. 30.
  • Definition of factors. pp. 31.