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Abstract
In the development of plans for the 1960 Census of Population, the question has been
raised as to whether "farm population" should be retained as a distinctive category of
enumeration, or if "open country" residents should be enumerated without distinction as
to whether their residences are farms. This article presents certain demographic differences
that, in the author's view, argue the continuing usefulness of retaining farm residence
as a distinct category for enumeration.