Widows and children on VA pension rolls, December 1965

Widows and children on VA pension rolls, December 1965—Continued

Mr. DORN. Pertinent to these hearings also is a memorandum with attachments, related to comparative income of veterans and nonveterans, by age, which was compiled for the committee staff by Veterans' Administration. This memorandum, with attachments, will be included at this point in the record.

(The memorandum and attachments follow:)

VETERANS' ADMINISTRATION,

April 18, 1966.

Memorandum to: House Veterans' Affairs Committee.
From: Director, Research Statistics Service (043), Veterans' Administration.
Subject: Comparative data on personal and family incomes of war veterans and

nonveterans.

In accordance with your request for comparative data on the personal and family incomes of war veterans and nonveterans, there are attached 5 tables for Mr. Meadows use.

Tables 1 and 2 provide comparisons of the 1964 personal incomes by age for all male war veterans and male nonveterans over 25 years of age, and for those war veterans and nonveterans who did not work during 1964.

Tables 3 and 4 give the family income picture in 1964. Table 3 provides comparisons by age of the 1964 income of all families headed by male war veterans or by male nonveterans 25 years of age and over. The next table, table 4, gives similar income distributions for those families in which the wife did not work and contribute through earnings to the family income.

Table 5 gives the median income and income distributions by age of war veterans and nonveterans living alone (unrelated individuals).

These income distributions and estimates of median income are based on Sample Survey data and should be interpreted in conjunction with the sampling variability given in the statement on Source and Reliability of the Estimates. Gencrally, the smaller the size of the population figure, the larger is the sampling

error.

We hope this will provide the information you need. further, please let us know.

If there is anything

MILTON C. FORSTER.

War veterans Nonveterans War veterans Non veterans War veterans Nonveterans War veterans Nonveterans

1 Computed from unrounded data, and rounded to the nearest $10.

2 Rounds to zero.

NOTE. The distributions in all the tables are shown to the nearest 10th of a percent

for the use of technicians in combining income classes in their analyses of the data, and not to indicate this degree of accuracy. In developing estimates, particularly for smaller population bases, percents should be rounded to the nearest whole percent.