Excerpt from the report Introduction: The basic question analyzed in this publication is, How influential a factor in the level of living is the dominance or lack of dominance of farming as a way of life in a county? Results shown are based upon complete coverage of counties of the United States rather than upon a sample as used in the previous reports. This allows a more refined regional analysis using nine census geographic regions instead of only the three major regions – North, South, West - previously used.