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Northern Utah

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Coping Strategies Of Dairy-Farm Husbands And Wives In Five Northern Utah Counties, Joel Phillip Brandley May 1990

Coping Strategies Of Dairy-Farm Husbands And Wives In Five Northern Utah Counties, Joel Phillip Brandley

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The purpose of this study is to provide a better understanding of the coping strategies used by dairy-farm couples. The independent variables of size of farm, where the respondents grew up, off-farm employment, age, amount of formal education, and debt-to-asset ratio of the farm are analyzed to determine their impact on the use of coping strategies by the dairy-farm husbands and wives.

A sample of 116 dairy farm-couples was drawn from five counties in Northern Utah. The farm husbands and wives were each interviewed separately using a structured questionnaire.

Due to the racial and religious composition of the sample and …