Excerpt from The Farm-Housing Survey: March 1939 If accidental selection operated in connection with the choice of areas to be studied and the enumeration of those areas, it probably tended to limit the sample to farms accessible to urban influence. Condition of structural parts was determined by local people whose standards were those of their own region. The data on conveniences and equipment are positive - things that the farmhouses actually had. The average of farm housing in America is probably not so good as it is shown for the farms included in the survey. How much worse it is we do not know. County and State figures are based on straight sum. Maries. For the divisional and national figures State summaries for all items have been weighted in propor tion to the number of occupied farm dwellings reported in the 1935 Census of Agriculture. Figures for the United States do not include the Middle Atlantic divi sion. That is, the national summary is a summary of weighted State summaries, excluding New Jersey. The sample obtained in New Jersey, which was the only State of the Middle Atlantic division entered by the survey, cannot be considered representative of conditions in the whole division. The index of condition (table 3) is an average of the number of cases reporting good condition for any one of seven structural items, expressed as a percentage of the total number of cases in each geographical unit. The seven items are foundations, exterior walls, roofs, chimneys, doors and windows, interior walls and ceil ings, and floors. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.