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Raymond T. Smith
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This is clearly a residual category, though one should be under no
illusion that in the United States the category "white" is, for all its apparent
transparency, a part of the whole series of "racial" or "ethnic"
categories. In the Poverty Project as a whole an attempt was made to include a
sample of "poor whites" by sampling in known "poverty areas."
Since the density of low-income whites in any particular area in Chicago is relatively
low, the attempt was not always successful.
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| Caseid |
Sex |
Age |
Marital Status & Number of Children |
Occupation |
| 202 |
F |
27 |
Never (5 ch) |
Unemployed |
| 209 |
F |
33 |
Married (2 ch) |
Shipping & Receiving |
| 215 |
F |
45 |
Divorced (3 ch) |
Unemployed |
| 217 |
F |
36 |
Divorced (2 ch) |
Unemployed |
| 218 |
F |
26 |
Married (2 ch) |
Building manager & janitor |
| 219 |
F |
36 |
Married (4 ch) |
Unemployed |
| 220 |
F |
31 |
Married (3 ch) |
Unemployed |
| 224 |
F |
28 |
Married (2 ch) |
Homemaker |
| 225 |
F |
36 |
Divorced (5 ch) |
Part-time merchandiser |
| 227 |
F |
36 |
Separated (2 ch) |
Insurance claims examiner |
| 303 |
F |
31 |
Married (4 ch) |
Presser |
| 316 |
F |
29 |
Divorced (3 ch) |
Unemployed |
| 323 |
F |
42 |
Married (5 ch) |
Unemployed |
| 517 |
F |
33 |
Married (2 ch) |
Housewife |
| 803 |
F |
45 |
Married (2 ch) |
On disability |
| 809 |
F |
30 |
Never (1 ch) |
Tourist Industry worker |
| 811 |
F |
40 |
Married (3 ch) |
Unemployed |
| 813 |
F |
30 |
Married (4 ch) |
Skilled manual labour |
| 814 |
F |
34 |
Divorced (3 ch) |
Unemployed |
| 821 |
F |
33 |
Separated (1 ch) |
Day care teacher |
| 304 |
M |
41 |
Divorced (2 ch) |
Labourer in machine shop |
| 311 |
M |
35 |
Married (3 ch) |
Tuck pointer |
| 317 |
M |
44 |
Married (4 ch) |
Window washer |
| 319 |
M |
45 |
Married (3 ch) |
Unemployed |
| 325 |
M |
35 |
Separated (1 ch) |
Sales representative |
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