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Using data collected in the 1991 Los Angeles (CA) Community Survey, the effects of social relations & social-class composition on Salvadorean & Pilipino (ie, Salvadoran & Filipino) immigrants' employment status & earnings are explored. Interviews with 574 Salvadorean & Pilipino workers measured employment status, earnings, social relations, individual skills, & demographic information. Findings indicate that strong social relations significantly affect employment status & earnings in both ethnic groups. Whereas male workers received higher wages when working with relatives, female workers with high earnings were more likely to not have coresident relatives. Moreover, the analysis demonstrates limited support for the contention that social relations have more effect in working-class Salvadorean families than in Pilipino families. 4 Tables, 33 References. Adapted from the source document.

SummarySeveral new concepts are used to describe contraceptive use histories for nearly 1200 women in Peninsular Malaysia. These histories are summarized by 81 episode histories. Transition matrices provide useful summaries of the changes women make in their contraceptive practice from one pregnancy interval to the next. Data from the mid-1940s to mid-1970s, during which period there was a dramatic increase in contraceptive use, reveal considerable inertia in individual couples' contraceptive practice. Persistence with a method was greater the less effective the method: while 86% of couples using no method in one interval used no method in the next, only 56% of couples using the pill in one interval also used it in the next. Virtually all transitions are of three types: continuation with the same method, a change from no method to some method, or a change from some method to no method. For only 1% of all pregnancies did couples use one contraceptive method before a pregnancy and a different method after the pregnancy. Differences are examined by calendar year and education.