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Download full textHeaton, Tim B.; And Others – 1982
United States population trends in 1960 suggested that the growing socioeconomic status of blacks would result in increasingly similar migration patterns among blacks and whites. Analysis of 1950 to 1980 census data was conducted to test that prediction. The analysis showed that in general, recent population trends have differed greatly from past…
Descriptors: Blacks, Demography, Economic Factors, Migration Patterns
Passel, Jeffrey S.; Zimmermann, Wendy – 2001
This paper uses data from the U.S. decennial censuses and March Supplements to the Current Population Survey of 1995-99 to examine the historic patterns of immigrant settlement within the United States, recent shifts in these patterns, and the extent to which changes are due to the international versus internal migration, focusing particularly on…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Geographic Distribution, Immigrants, Immigration
Sparkes, Vernone M.; Robinson, Gertrude Joch – 1976
This study tested the power of "elite nation" factors (trade, population, and gross national product) to predict the amount of foreign news coverage for specific countries. A composite week for the first quarter of 1975 was randomly drawn, and ten Canadian and twenty-nine United States newspapers were coded for all news items reported on…
Descriptors: Adults, Comparative Analysis, Economic Factors, Foreign Countries
Rainey, Kenneth D. – 1976
The paper briefly focuses on two questions: Can the recent growth trend be expected to continue into the future? and What does this imply as far as public policy and programs are concerned? Statistics on growth in the seventies suggest three possibilities: a change in the functions of metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas; the decline of the city…
Descriptors: Age, Agricultural Trends, Birth Rate, Demography
Hwang, Sean-Shong; Murdock, Steve H. – 1984
This analysis addresses the need for including age-structure effects in migration analysis as important for determining effects of a demographic process on an area's socioeconomic characteristics. It examines: (1) patterns of age-specific net migration across age groups for Texas' 254 counties in 1960-1970 and 1970-1980 using cluster analysis and,…
Descriptors: Age Groups, Change, Cluster Analysis, Data Analysis
Gober, Patricia – 1979
The role of migration and of federal policy in population redistribution should be a central focus in population geography education. Although migration to the Sunbelt and the West has been a pattern since the 1950s, a significant trend has been noted only since the 1970s, when the birth rate dropped so much that natural increase could not…
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Demography, Economic Factors, Federal Aid
Griffith, D. A. – 1994
The Griffith Service Access Frame (GSAF) is a model used for quantifying the access disadvantage to educational services of remote and rural areas in Australia. The model was specifically developed to assist policymakers and administrators in allocating resources. The problem with the current funding formula used by the Australian federal…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Concurrent Validity, Economic Factors, Educational Finance
