Reliability and Adequacy of Farm Wage Rate Data

Partial contents: History of the wage rate series --- The present method of collection --- Weighting and averaging wage rate data --- Reliability of reported wage rates --- Cash wage rates versus real wages --- Farm wage rates, without board, adjusted for changes in rural living costs (fig.1) --- Exhibit A: Excerpt from the March 1935 issue of Crop and Markets showing piece-work wage rates and related data --- Exhibit E: U.S. farm employment release, Nov. 15, 1939 --- Exhibit F: Facsimile of October 1939 General Schedule (Illustrating type of question used to collect farm labor data) --- Exhibit G: Facsimile of November 1, 1939 Cotton Schedule (Illustrating type of question used to collect data on cotton-picking rates).