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A STUDY of the activities, interests and problems of young married men and women, 15-29 years of age, in the rural sections of Tompkins County, has been published by the Cornell University Agriculture Experiment Station, as part of a study of youth problems. The data were acquired by direct personal interview with each of the 347 persons included in the study. One third of the persons interviewed were men and two thirds were women. Of the whole group, 30 per cent lived on farms, 40 per cent in villages and 30 per cent lived in the open country but not on farms. On an average, these young people had spent more than two years at a high school, and two in five of the men and one in four of the women had received some college training. Only 4 per cent of the men were unemployed, 11 per cent being employed part time; 86 per cent of the women were employed in housework and 5 per cent had part-time work.
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Social Life in a Rural Community. Nature 138, 581–582 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/138581d0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/138581d0