The proportion of the population with grade 8 and over completed is 

 somewhat higher in New Hampshire than for the United States average. 

 More extensive education is also apparent because the proportion of people 

 who have completed grade 8 only is higher in the older age groups. On the 

 other hand higher proportions of the younger age groups have completed 

 four years of high school or college. This is illustrated in Table 22. 



Table 22. Years of School Completed for Males and Females over 25 Years of Age 

 by Percentage of Total in Each Age Group in New Hampshire — 1950 



Marital Status 



By 1950 there is a decided increase in the proportion of both sexes 

 married as compared with 1940. This increase contributed substantially to 

 the increase in birth rates shown in Table 18 for the same period (Table 23). 



Table 23. Marital Status of Residents of the State of New Hampshire 

 14 Years Old and Over — 1940-1950 



Year Single Married Widowed or Divorced 



Males Females Males Females Males Females 



Occupation 



In 1950, 54 percent of the New Hampshire population 14 years old and 

 over was employed as compared with 53 percent of the total United States 

 population 14 years old and over employed. 



The greatest proportion of employed in the state are operatives which 

 includes skilled and semi-skilled workers in manufacturing and service in- 

 dustries. A comparison of the proportion in each occupation with the United 

 States shows the relative distribution of each occupation. Other than a lower 

 proportion of farmers and farm managers in New Hampshire and the higher 

 proportion of operatives there are no great differences in the distribution of 

 occupation groups. 



Income 



The largest proportion of families is in the net cash income group 

 $2,000 to $3,500 in New Hampshire. A comparison of the distribution in 

 New Hampshire with the United States shows a greater proportion of fami- 



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