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Compilers collected data on such items as sources of income, food produced, wild foods gathered, clothing and food purchases, family size, education, occupations and locations of adult children not at home, indebtedness, types of home, and amounts spent on health and personal items. Included among this data is a set of questions relating to individuals within the family, including birthplaces, names of parents, relationships, etc.","Data from the survey was eventually used in a report by Faith M. Williams titled \"Variations in Farm-Family Living,\" which appeared in United States Department of Agriculture Miscellaneous Publication No. 205,   Economic and Social Problems and Conditions of the Southern Appalachian Highlands . Tabulations were also used in the production of the manuscript, \"Rural Family Living in Grayson County, Va.\" by Ilena M. Bailey and Faith M. Williams, which was never published, and in the master's thesis \"A study to determine the food habits of three hundred thirty-three families living in Grayson County, Virginia\" by Willamay Toland Dean, (VPI Agicultural Economics, M.S. 1937), call no. LD5655.V855 1937.D436. Information gleaned from the study also seems to have been used in a number of other reports by federal agencies. ","A related cooperative study of Grayson County farm organization and management was conducted in 1930/1931 by the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station and the United States Bureau of Agricultural Economics. The findings of that study were published in Bulletin 304 of the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station.","The guide to the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station Farm Family Study (Grayson County, Virginia) by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ ).","The processing, arrangement, and description of the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station Farm Family Study (Grayson County, Virginia), was completed in May 2013.","The following materials are also available in Virginia Tech Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA):","The published report resulting from this study may be found in Williams, Faith M. \"Variations in Farm-Family Living\" in  Economic and Social Problems and Conditions of the Southern Appalachians . United States Dept. of Agriculture Misc. 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The study collected data in such areas as family size, education, health, income and expenditures, employment, housing, food, clothing, and household furnishings and supplies. The collection includes data tabulated by category on worksheets, together worksheets containing the raw data (referred to within the collection as \"cards\"). The collection also contains a list of the study's personnel and the Grayson County families contributing data to the study. The families are numbered in the list, so that an individual family's data can be tracked through the cards and the tabulated worksheets. Also included in the collection are format outlines of the tabulated data and card formats to assist in interpreting the data. ","The user should note that while entries are keyed to a unique number assigned to each family unit interviewed, the data is not always presented in numerical order. The user should also be aware that 0 is not used in the worksheets. 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The findings of that study were published in Bulletin 304 of the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station.","The guide to the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station Farm Family Study (Grayson County, Virginia) by Special Collections and University Archives, Virginia Tech, is licensed under a CC0 ( https://creativecommons.org/share-your-work/public-domain/cc0/ ).","The processing, arrangement, and description of the Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station Farm Family Study (Grayson County, Virginia), was completed in May 2013.","The following materials are also available in Virginia Tech Special Collections and University Archives (SCUA):","The published report resulting from this study may be found in Williams, Faith M. \"Variations in Farm-Family Living\" in  Economic and Social Problems and Conditions of the Southern Appalachians . United States Dept. of Agriculture Misc. Publication No. 205, January 1935 (A1.38 201-217 Newman Docs / for photocopy, see Grayson County folder of the Southwest Virginia Vertical Files in SCUA).","The raw data collected for the related 1930/1931 report on Grayson County farm operations may be found in University Archives Record Group 25/1, Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station Records. The report resulting from that study may be found in Vernon, J. J. et al. \"A Study of the Organization and Management of Farms in Grayson County, Virginia.\"  Bulletin  (Virginia Agricultural Experiment Station) 304, June 1936. (call no. S123 E2 no. 304 Spec VPI).","Tabulations were also used in the production of the manuscript, \"Rural Family Living in Grayson County, Va.\" by Ilena M. Bailey and Faith M. 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The study collected data in such areas as family size, education, health, income and expenditures, employment, housing, food, clothing, and household furnishings and supplies. The collection includes data tabulated by category on worksheets, together worksheets containing the raw data (referred to within the collection as \"cards\"). The collection also contains a list of the study's personnel and the Grayson County families contributing data to the study. The families are numbered in the list, so that an individual family's data can be tracked through the cards and the tabulated worksheets. Also included in the collection are format outlines of the tabulated data and card formats to assist in interpreting the data. ","The user should note that while entries are keyed to a unique number assigned to each family unit interviewed, the data is not always presented in numerical order. The user should also be aware that 0 is not used in the worksheets. 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