Table 17. Selected Characteristics of Farms Operated by Females, Persons of Spanish 

 Origin, and Specified Racial Groups: 1987 and 1982-Con. 



[For meaning of abbreviations and symbols, see Introductory text] 



Characteristics 



Female 

 operators 



Operators of 

 Spanisfi ongln^ 



Farms operated by Black and other races 



Total 



Black 



Amencan Indian 



Other 

 (see text) 



1987 OPERATOR 

 CHARACTERISTICS 



Operators by place of residence: 



On farm operated 



Not on farm operated 



Not reported 



Operators by principal occupation; 



Farming 



Other _ 



Operators by days of work off farm; 



None 



Any 



1 to 99 days _._ 



100 to 199 days 



200 days or more 



Not reported 



Operators by years on present farm: 



2 years or less 



3 or 4 years 



5 to 9 years 



10 years or more 



Average years on present farm 



Not reported 



Operators by age group: 



Under 25 years 



25 to 34 years , 



35 to 44 years 



45 to 54 years 



55 to 59 years 



60 to 64 years 



65 to 69 years 



70 years and over 



Average age 



Operators by sex: 



IVIale 



Female 



Operators of Spanish ongin^ 



1987 COMMODITY CREDIT 

 CORPORATION LOANS AND 

 GOVERNMENT PAYMENTS 



Amount received from Commodity Credit 

 Corporation loans farms. 



$1.000,, 

 Government payments received farms. 



$1.000., 



2 355 

 263 

 174 



1 556 

 1 236 



1 429 



1 856 



211 



945 



700 



183 

 237 

 497 

 1 376 

 18,0 



33 

 289 

 604 

 503 

 306 

 315 

 266 

 476 

 53.6 



(X) 

 2 792 



26 

 152 

 262 

 596 



8 



7 



14 



61 



18,6 



4 



9 



11 



60 



16,8 



2 

 7 

 21 

 29 

 15 

 11 

 11 

 14 

 53.5 



1 

 (0) 



8 

 29 



3 



33 



21,7 



1 

 2 



11 

 4 

 6 

 7 



12 

 61,5 



1 



7 



4 



7 



13,7 



2 



10 

 7 

 3 

 1 

 1 

 2 

 49,2 



1 

 (D) 



4 

 (D) 



3 

 2 

 3 



12 

 11.2 



1 

 (D) 



1 



8 



16.4 



'See chapter 1, table 16 for operators not of or not reporting Spanish ongin. 



22 PENNSYLVANIA 



1987 CENSUS OF AGRICULTURE -STATE DATA 



