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3,- women. Of these, 5,020 are considered to be in need of subsidized fa) planning services according to data provided by the Alan Guttmacher Institute. Statistics generated from the OCHD family planning clinic! indicate that 1 ,423 patients are being served. Assuming all these pal are in need of subsidized services) 28.3% of the total 5,020 are beir served by OCHD. b. Age breakdownsrall ages by race'.--Data available differentiates only whites and nonwhites. Whites constitute the majority of the populatic (82%), and whites aged 20-24 constitute the greatest divergence from t statewide distribution reflecting again the University's population. Differences in proportions of age groups exist among the races in lower and upper age ranges , as well as in the college-age groups, as illustrated below: Ages White Nonwhite 0 -14 16.44% 23.76% 15-19 11. 65 11. 52 20-24 23.39 11.34 25-29 12. 14 10.62 - 30-39 12.96 13.37 40-64 16.67 20. 11 65-UP 6.74 10.03 c. Education level.--While 21% of the heads Cif North Carolina households w estimated to have less than an eighth grade education, only 9% of those Orange County fall into this category (1978-1979 data). Furthermore, 31.8% of Orange County residents aged 25 or older war reported)in 1970, to have four years or more of college. The percentes, at this level for North Carolina is 8. 5. d. Employment/unemployment by age, race, sex.--The July 1980 unemployment for Orange County was 4.8% compared to 8. 1% for the State. However, dai provided in the North Carolina Department of Human Resources Needs Assessment Report '79; AnT-sis of Human Needs, show that 15% of Nort Carolina households have an unemployed head; the figure for Orange Count is 11%. 1970 data shows that proportionately fewer males age sixteen an over in Orange County are employed (62.1%) compared to the State average (77.4%). Since the unemployment rates are similar (2.4% for the State a 2.6% for Orange), the different proportions of employed males may be related to the large number of university-age males in Orange County. Among females age sixteen and over, proportionately more are employ in Orange County (50%) than for the State as a whole (46.5%), and Proportionately fewer Orange County females are unemployed (2.9% compare to the State's 4.9%). Statistics regarding employment and unemployment by race were not available. e. Per capita income.--For 1978, the per capita income in Orange County was $6,770.00, slightly above the North Carolina average of $6,640.00. The number of persons eligible for food stamps in Orange County in 1978 was 10,392, 15.3% of the estimated population. There were 1,238 families wit Medicaid-eligible persons. 971 of these latter were under age twenty-one