Earners and Dependents in Urban Families in Relation to Family Income

* Bureau of Research a n d Statistics, D i vision of Coord inat ion Studies. M a r t i n M a r i m o n t and Sol Ackerman, formerly of the Div is ion , aided i n the development of the tables. I N MOST SOCIAL INSURANCE systems contributions are based on individual earnings. Benefits, on the other hand, are, for many programs, varied by size and composition of family . Since lower-paid workers tend to have larger families there is a rough k i n d of social equity i n th is departure from the payment of benefits s t r ic t ly proport ional to contributions. How rough is not too well known, since data on contributions and benefits by f ami l y income class can be only par t ia l ly approximated.