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Figure 4. Percent of Persons of Spanish Origin 14 Years Old and Over by Marital Status, Sex, and Type of Spanish Origin: March 1976

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Figure 5. Percent of Persons of Spanish Origin 25 Years Old and Over by Years of School Completed and Type of Spanish Origin: March 1976

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Table E. Percent of the Spanish Origin Population 25 Years Old and Over by Years of School Completed, Type of Spanish Origin, and Age, for the United States: March 1976

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Employment and Occupation. In March 1976, about 57 percent of employed men of Spanish origin were blue-collar workers, compared to 24 percent employed in white-collar occupations; but for employed women of Spanish origin, about one in three were blue-collar workers, and about onehalf were employed in white-collar occupations.

In March 1976 about 4 million persons of Spanish origin 16 years old and over were in the civilian labor force, and the unemployment rate of these persons (11 percent) was 3 percentage points higher than the unemployment rate for the total population.

Proportions of Spanish origin men in the labor force varied, in some instances, by type of Spanish origin. The proportion of Mexican origin men in the labor force (79 percent) was greater than for Puerto Rican men (67 percent), and Puerto Rican women had a lower proportion in the labor force (31 percent) than did women of Cuban origin (48 percent).

Furthermore, noteworthy differences existed in the occupational distribution within the population of Spanish origin; for instance, the proportions of employed Puerto Rican origin men working in service occupations was much larger (24 percent) than the proportion of Mexican origin men employed in that type of occupation (11 percent).

Also, although about 8 percent of Mexican men were working as farm laborers, only 1 percent of the men of all the other Spanish origins combined were so employed (tables F, 9, and 10).

Income of Persons. In general, a very small proportion of Spanish origin persons with income in 1975 had high incomes, and a substantial proportion had low incomes; only 1 percent of all Spanish persons with income had incomes of $25,000 or more, while about one of every two had incomes below $5,000.

In income distribution, there were marked differences between men and women of Spanish origin. For instance, 39 percent of Mexican men with income had incomes below $5,000, yet about 75 percent of Mexican women had incomes at that level. Furthermore, median income for Mexican men was $6,500, but for Mexican women the median was $2,800; Puerto Rican men had a median of $6,700 compared to a median of $3,800 for women of Puerto Rican origin; and men of Cuban origin had a median income in 1975 of about $7,100, while the median income of Cuban women was substantially lower at $3,400.

Some variation in income occurred among types of Spanish origin. Although the median income of Puerto Rican origin men was not significantly

Figure 6. Percent Distribution of Employed Persons 16 Years Old and Over by Broad Occupation Group, Sex, and Type of Spanish Origin: March 1976

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Table F. Broad Occupation Group of Employed Persons of Spanish Origin 16 Years Old and Over
by Sex and Type of Spanish Origin, for the United States: March 1976

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Residence. Families of Spanish origin (that is, families in which the head of the family is of Spanish origin) totaled 2.5 million in March 1976. Most of these families were primarily metropolitan dwellers: about 2.1 million of them (84 percent) were living within a standard metropolitan statistical area, and only 400,000 (16 percent) were living in nonmetropolitan areas. Furthermore, about one of every two Spanish origin families were residents of the central cities of metropolitan areas.

Residential preference was evident by type of Spanish origin; almost all families of Puerto Rican origin (97 percent) were living in metropolitan areas in 1976, in contrast, about 77 percent of Mexican families were metropolitan dwellers. Puerto Rican families also were more likely than Mexican families to live in the central cities of metropolitan areas; about 82 percent of the former lived in the central cities of metropolitan areas, whereas 43 percent of the latter did so (table H).

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