THE FARMER'S STANDARD OE LIVING 
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Table 14. — Relation of combined grades of formal schooling of operator and 
home maker to value per family of goods used during one year, etc. — Contd. 
PERCENTAGE DISTRIBUTION 
Fam- 
ilies 
re- 
port- 
ing 
Size 
of 
fam- 
ily 
Average value of— 
Schooling of operator and home 
All goods used 
Food 
Cloth- 
ing 
Kent 
Ad- 
vance- 
ment 
maker combined 
Total 
Fur- 
nished 
by 
farm 
Pur- 
chased 
All 
oth- 
ers 
Num- 
ber 
2,316 
Per- 
sons 
4.4 
Ret. 
100.0 
Ret. 
42.9 
Ret. 
57.1 
Ret. 
41.1 
Ret. 
14.6 
Ret. 
12.7 
Ret. 
6.7 
Ret. 
24.9 
Both, eighth or less . . . 
1,303 
317 
50 
327 
143 
46 
26 
39 
65 
4.6 
4.1 
3.9 
4.1 
4.2 
3.9 
4.0 
4.1 
4.1 
100.0 
100.0 
100.0 
100.0 
100.0 
100.0 
100.0 
100.0 
100.0 
45.2 
40.6 
36.0 
41.9 
42.8 
40.3 
40.0 
34.0 
37.4 
54.8 
59.4 
64.0 
58.1 
57.2 
59.7 
60.0 
66.0 
62.6 
43.5 
39.4 
33.5 
39.6 
41.2 
35.6 
35.6 
32.9 
35.6 
14.7 
14.3 
14.3 
14.7 
14.1 
14.2 
12.7 
15.1 
14.6 
12.7 
12.3 
12.2 
13.3 
12.2 
13.9 
15.6 
10.2 
12.3 
5.8 
7.0 
10.4 
6.6 
7.5 
8.6 
8.6 
13.2 
10.1 
23.3 
Both, ninth-twelfth.. __ ... 
27.0 
Both, more than twelfth 
29.6 
Operator, eighth or less; home 
maker, ninth-twelfth . . 
25.8 
Home maker, eighth or less; op- 
erator, ninth-twelfth . 
25.0 
Operator, eighth or less; home 
maker, more than twelfth 
Home maker, eighth or less; op- 
erator, more than twelfth ._ 
Operator, ninth-twelfth; home 
maker, more than twelfth 
Home maker, ninth-twelfth; op- 
erator, more than twelfth ._ 
27.7 
27.5 
28.6 
27.4 
Fairly significant relationships between the combined grades of 
schooling and the value of goods used — with the distribution of this 
value among the principal groups of goods — are evident in Table 14. 
This is true especially with the families in which the same number 
of grades of schooling were reported for both operator and home 
maker. The average value of all goods used by families in which 
both the operator and the home maker had obtained more than 12 
grades of schooling is almost $550 above a similar average value for 
families in which both the operator and the home maker had obtained 
not more than 8 grades of schooling. The average value of all goods 
used by the families in which the operator had received from 9 to 12 
grades of schooling is approximately half way between the two 
averages just referred to. 
The distribution of the average value of all goods used by the 
first three groups of families considered in Table 14 suggests higher 
levels of living among the families in which the operator and home 
maker obtained additional grades of schooling. The percentage that 
the average value of food forms of the total value of all goods used 
shows a marked decrease. The percentages that the values of cloth- 
ing and rent form of the total, decrease slightly and irregularly, 
The percentages that the value of advancement goods and all other 
goods are of the value of all goods used increase regularly, the 
former significantly and the latter slightly. 
The remaining figures in Table 14 indicate a heavier bearing of 
the schooling of the home maker than of the operator on the value of 
all goods used. In all three instances of alternate cross classifications 
of families by schooling of operator and home maker, the groups of 
