35 Postwar experience, up to the fnll of 1946, indicnted thnt group A wns 81 porcont employed, although when recruited only 29 porcent had been. Tho group which roturned had not fared so well: 54 percont wcrc unernployed compared with 71 percent when recruited. Those who remainod hnd not only kept employed; they had bettercd thoir omployment. Sixty-one perccnt of them reportad that they werc working at a better job tho.n thcy had held before the wnr. 0nly 15 percent of the group which returned could report the sume experience. 0ccupntion nlrnost invariably correlates to a high degroe with educo.tion. Ruiz found this in her study.� D&ta far the two groups, compared with the group interviowed by Ruiz, 1s given in Table XIV. The A group is seen to be superior to the B. Since both were presunr, bly selected on tho bnsis of skill it would be e:x--pected thnt they out shine �he Ruiz group. TABLE XIV
Distribution of the Number of Yenrs of Schooling GR0UP A :No. of years: Jl_ttondcd Per School No. :ocmt
.
College graduate Threc years in collegc T·o yeers in college One year in colloge High school grndunte Three yenrs in high school Two yoQrs in high school 0ne year in high school Elcnent�ry school grad. Sevcn yenrs in elomontary Six yoars in elementary Five yenrs in elemcntnry Four yc�rs in elementnry Three yonrs in 0lemontary Two yc�rs in olomontnry 0no ycnr in okmentnry TarAL
Source:
.
.
16 15 14
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: Per No. :cunt
No. :cent
.
Per
30
1
30 242
1
2L�l
8
12
13
1 7
2
o
2 17
11
3
1
1
o
10 9 8
9 10 101
2
20 9 54
6 3 15
183 302 156
6 10 5
7 6 5 4 3
35 36 70 57 34 11
9
51 42 51 45 28 19 16
14
182 484 489 211 242 172 60
6 16 17 7
2
1
11
385
3 26 9 18 15 9 3 3 100
355
J. 5
12
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100 3024
8
8
5 2
100
Pnquitn Ruiz, Vocationnl Nocds of Puerto !ti can Migrents; Río Piodr�� Social Scionce Research Center, University of P uerto Rico, 1947. Tablo XI, pnge 15.
