The Hired Farm Working Force of 1960: Advanced Report

Over 3.6 million persons worked on farms for wages at some time during 1960. This preliminary estimate of the 1960 hired farm working force is based on data collected for the Economic Research Service by the Bureau of the Census as a part of the February, 1961, Current Population Survey (CPS). The survey obtained information on employment; earnings and characteristics of farm wage workers, including migratory workers. Other items on which data were collected included educational attainment of farm workers, years of farm work for the same employer; and information on Spanish-American workers in the hired farm working force. These data will be analyzed in "The Hired Farm Working Force of 1960" now in preparation