4.6% of households (2.8% of one-person households)
% of housekeeping households using the item at home in one week
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Food Consumption of Households in the United States (Household Food Consumption Survey, 1955, Report No. 1)
U.S. Department of Agriculture, Agricultural Research Service and Agricultural Marketing Service · 1956
Population measured
All US housekeeping households of 1 or more persons — one spring week, April-June 1955; percentages based on the survey's weighted household distribution (its Table 1, weighted to include one-quarter farm). 'Food used' is the survey's economic sense: eaten, discarded, or fed to pets, from all sources including home-produced
Source notes & limitations
The survey's national report, 202 pp. Household-use percentages for fresh vegetables are Table 14 (FRESH VEGETABLES), United States / All urbanizations section, printed p. 111 of the archive scan (PDF page 115): the dark-green-and-deep-yellow group total, its dark-green-leafy total, spinach, other leafy, broccoli, carrots and green peppers columns (2)-(8), each in all-sources and purchased-only variants, over 'percentage of households using' rows. The same table repeats per urbanization section (nonfarm, urban, rural nonfarm, rural farm) with a DIFFERENT column plan per section — columns must not be mixed across sections. The scan is a negative microfilm whose text layer garbles some digits; every curated value was closed against the survey's own arithmetic instead (All-households row = Table-1-weighted mean of its 1-person and 2+-person rows) — see the verification log, 'Plan 027 WI-6 (1955 checkpoint)'.
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