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McInnis, Kathleen M. – 1981
A demographic study was conducted to examine the secondary migration rate of 782 Indochinese families resettled by the Lutheran Social Services of Wisconsin and upper Michigan between May 1975 and October 1980. Although 18 percent of the families were found to have left their original location of resettlement, this rate is lower than the mobility…
Descriptors: Asian Americans, Family Characteristics, Indochinese, Migration Patterns
Shannon, Lyle W.; And Others – 1974
This study began in 1958 as an investigation of the adjustment problems of Mexican-Americans in a highly visible barrio on the outskirts of Racine, Wisconsin. It was believed that an understanding of the process of value assimilation would explain their success or lack of success in adjusting to Anglo society. However, as we have come to see it,…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Bias, Blacks, Community Surveys

Perrone, Philip; Dow, Edward – Roeper Review, 1993
This study of the college experiences of 1,724 academically talented (upper 2%) high school seniors in Wisconsin did not support suggestions of a "brain drain" out of Wisconsin. The study also found that 82% of males and 72% of females majored in math-science areas and 60% felt ill prepared in foreign languages. (DB)
Descriptors: Academically Gifted, Career Choice, High Schools, Higher Education

Davis, Nancy J.; Fuguitt, Glenn V. – 1976
Population growth rates in the 1950-1975 period indicate that metropolitan and nonmetropolitan streams of migration are of virtually the same magnitude in Wisconsin; metropolitan residents are moving to nonmetropolitan places as frequently as their nonmetropolitan counterparts are migrating to metropolitan communities. When migration streams are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adult Education, Age Groups, Demography