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And as today 's report shows , nearly a quarter of our nation 's elderly live in rural areas . Through the National Solidarity Programme , the government has reached 7,500 villages , covering over a quarter of our population , including for the first time very remote areas of the country . From the census records I learned that over a quarter of our county ’ s black population during the antebellum and Civil War years worked in various capacities on the river and that many more were draymen and drivers of wagons and omnibuses that gave them access to Louisville via the ferries .