Health Care Problems of the Black Elderly: A Briefing, Volumes 34-46

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1990 - 227 pages

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Page 212 - A household consists of all the persons who occupy a housing unit. A house, an apartment or other group of rooms, or a single room, is regarded as a housing unit, when it is occupied...
Page 212 - The householder is the first adult household member listed on the questionnaire. The instructions call for listing first the person (or one of the persons) in whose name the home is owned or rented. If a home is owned jointly by a married couple, either the husband or the wife may be listed first, thereby becoming the reference person, or householder, to whom the relationship of other household members is to be recorded.
Page 212 - A house, an apartment or other group of rooms, or a single room, is regarded as a housing unit, when it is occupied or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters...
Page 212 - family" refers to a group of two or more persons related by birth, marriage, or adoption and residing together in a household.
Page 89 - The Report of the Secretary's Task Force on Black and Minority Health...
Page 214 - SMSA is a county or group of contiguous counties which contains at least one city of 50,000 inhabitants or more, or "twin cities" with a combined population of at least 50,OOO.
Page 214 - A subfamily is a married couple with or without children, or one parent with one or more single children under 18 years old, living in a household and related to, but not including, the head of the household or his wife.
Page 212 - ... inheritances or insurance payments. All sources of income may be combined into two major types: Total money earnings, the algebraic sum of money wages or salary and net income from farm and nonfarm selfemployment, and...
Page 212 - A household includes the related family members and all the unrelated persons, if any, such as lodgers, foster children, wards, or employees who share the housing unit. A person living alone in a housing unit, or a group of unrelated persons sharing a housing unit as partners, is also counted as a household.
Page 212 - Net income from farm self-employment is net money income (gross receipts minus operating expenses) from the operation of a farm by a person on his own account, as an owner, renter, or sharecropper.

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