This research examines the influence of marital status on the demand for services using a model in which the demand for market services and mothers' time spent in related household activities are jointly determined. Three specific areas of market services are investigated meals prepared away from home, child care, and housekeeping. In multivariate systems analyses in which mothers' household work time and purchased services were simultaneously determined, families headed by single mothers were found to (a) purchase more meals prepared away from home and (b) be more likely to purchase child care and housekeeping services than their two-parent counterparts holding income and other factors constant.

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Across the nution, institutions thut teach interior design are udding cornpurer-aided drufting und design (CADD) clusses to their curriculum with the assumption that the c'ourses will enhance their gruduutes' marketubiliv. I n Julv 1987, u questionnuire wus muiled to practicing interior designers to ussess their attitudes towurd CADD truining f i r interior design students and towurd CADD in generul. By understunding the attitudes of pructicing interior designers, teaching institutions can better determine if the need for CADD chsses exists and what attitudes toward CADD the graduates will encounter when t h q enter the design field.Responses from u nationwide random sample indicute thut pructicing interior designers have positive attitudes towurd CADD und toward CADD truiningfiw students.