1970 Census of Population and Housing. Employment Profiles of Selected Low-income Areas, Issue 68

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U.S. Government Printing Office, 1972

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Page 3 - South: Alabama, Arkansas, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North Carolina, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia, and West Virginia.
Page 3 - ... available for work during the survey week (except for temporary Illness). Also included as unemployed are those who did not work at all, were available for work, and (a) were waiting to be called back to a job from which they had been laid off; or (b) were waiting to report to a new wage or salary job within 30 days.
Page 1 - A household includes the related family members and all the unrelated persons, If any, such as lodgers, boarders, 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 1 - family,' as used here, refers to a group of two or more persons related by blood, marriage, or adoption and residing together; all such persons are considered as members of the same family.
Page 3 - There are six categories for size of place ranging from a large city of over 250,000 inhabitants to a farm. A distinction is drawn on some of the tables between places in the South and places outside the South. For the list of places in the South, see "Place of birth." LABOR FORCE CHARACTERISTICS Labor force and employment status.— The definitions of labor force and employment status in this report relate to civilian persons 16 years and over. The reference period for establishing labor force status...
Page 7 - The figures presented in the tables are approximations to the standard errors of various estimates shown in this report. In order to derive standard errors that would be applicable to a wide variety of items and could be prepared at a moderate cost, a number of approximations were required. As a result, the tables of standard errors...
Page 3 - The questions on educational attainment apply only to progress in "regular" schools. Such schools include graded public, private, and parochial elementary and high schools (both junior and senior high), colleges, universities, and professional schools, whether day schools or night schools. Thus, regular schooling is that which may advance a person toward an elementary school certificate or high school diploma, or a college, university, or professional school degree. Schooling in other than regular...
Page 1 - 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 or intended for occupancy as separate living quarters; that is, when the occupants do not live and eat with any other persons ;n the structure and there is either (1) direct access from the outside or through a common hall or (2) a kitchen or cooking equipment for the exclusive use of the occupants.
Page 1 - Unrelated individual. -The term "unrelated individuals," as used in this report, refers to persons 16 years old and over (other than inmates of institutions) who are not living with any relatives. An unrelated individual may...
Page 4 - These persons are further classified as "engaged in own home housework," "in school," "unable to work" because of long-term physical or mental illness, and "other." The "other" group includes for the most part retired persons, those reported as too old to work, the voluntarily idle, and seasonal workers for whom the survey week fell in an "off" season and who were not reported as unemployed.

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