Extensiveness of Communication Contacts and Perceptions of the Community

servative party. The agrarian Liberals (Venstre) appeal most strongly to the second and third strata from the top. These three parties accounted in September 1953 for 81 per cent of the total vote. We have limited our attention in this paper to status differences. However, within each of the five strata there are important variations associated with occupation and with rural or urban residence. Preliminary analysis seems to indicate that the most predictive dichotomy within any stratum is the one between agrarian and non-agrarian occupations.