  Using the OGLE catalogue of eclipsing binaries, 15 contact binaries were
identified towards the SMC and the LMC at vertical distances from the Galactic
plane between 300 pc and 10 kpc. Based on the luminosity function calculated
for these contact binaries, we estimated a frequency of occurrence relative to
Main Sequence stars in the thick disk at roughly 1/600. This estimate suffers
from the small number statistics, but is consistent with the value previously
found for the solar neighbourhood.
