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The present study deals with informal group participation as related to settlement patterns in a metropolitan community. This analysis describes a precision-matched sample developed from a total sample of 2,401 cases. Basic conclusions are that place of residence tends to differentiate the population relative to informal group participation, and that differences in informal contact are a function of both population characteristics and residence location rather than of the former variable alone, as previous studies seem to suggest. The pattern for such interaction is generally low in the city and high in the suburbs. Exceptions to this generalization are located in those groups that do not fit the general pattern shown by the population of the zone in which they are living; a theoretical implication is that being in a minority affects one's interaction rate.
Aida K. Tomeh (Wed,) studied this question.