[Effect of social factors on the relations between working mother and premature birth rate]

Basing on the results of a study of 6780 women we found already at the beginning of the 1970 years in the GDR a premature birth rate for occupied women not more unfavourable than for house-wives; the total rate by then was 5,9%. The present paper deals with the influence of certain social factors--e. g. educational and social status, personal status, number of children within a family - on the frequency of premature births for occupied women and house-wives.