Percentage of 

 respondents 



1^0 



Boston 



Detroit Birming- 

 ham 



FIGURE VIII. —PERCENTAGE OF NEGRO 

 RESPONDENTS OF TOTAL RESPONDENTS 



The personal characteristics of the 

 households and homemakers were tabulated 

 for each of the canned tuna consur.iption 

 groups defined for this study. These 

 tabulations revealed frequency of canned 

 tuna usage in these cities to be asso- 

 ciated with the following characteristics: 

 maritial status, size of household, occu- 

 pation of respondent's husband, age of 

 homemaker, family income, education of 

 homenaker, nativity of parents of hone- 

 maker, religion of family and race. 



The light user and heavy user groups, 

 when compared with the sporadic user and 

 never user groups, are found to contain a 

 higher proportion of: households with 

 married respondents j larger households; 

 husbands with an executive, professional, 

 or sales occupation; homemakers less than 

 56 years of age; higher income families; 

 homemakers with education beyond elemen- 

 tary school; homemakers whose parents are 

 foreign bom; families affiliated with the 

 Catholic religion; and white families. 



A summary of the findings revealed by 

 classification of the data by race, family 

 income , the homemaker' s age , education, 

 and employment status, the number of per- 

 sons eating dinner at home, family reli- 

 gious affiliation, and nativity of the 

 homemaker' s parents, together with data 

 on product image mentioned in the next 

 section, will be made available for a 

 limited time upon request to the Fish and 

 Wildlife Service by persons have a need 

 for such data. 



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