This report presents detailed national statistics on the social and economic characteristics of the civilian male veteran population 14 years old and over. These statistics are based on a 5-percent sample of the population enumerated in the eighteenth Decennial Census of Population, taken as of April 1, 1960, and derived from tabulations prepared at the request and expense of the Veterans Administration. The tabulations on which materials in this report are based were designed by the Veterans Administration in order to provide data relating to a wide variety of specific administrative issues.

Data are included on mobility status, Years of School Completed, marital status, family characteristics and relationship, employment status, Weeks Worked In 1959, major occupation group, Income In 1959, and tenure and value of housing unit. Generally, separate statistics are presented for war veterans and veterans of peacetime service and for total and non-white veterans. Although most of the data presented relate to the United States as a whole, some information is provided for the urban and rural parts of the country.

Table 1 presents data on veterans by single years of age by period of service. It is followed by a group of tables (tables 2 to 4) presenting data on migration. Tables 5 to 8 present statistics on marital status, families, and various labor force characteristics. The major part of the report is concerned with data on personal income and the income of families headed by veterans, cross-classified by a variety of relevant characteristics (tables 9 to 18). Table 19 presents data on value of owner-occupied housing units cross-classified by family income for families headed by veterans and by male nonveterans.