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Financial Viability of Farm Families.
Salant, Priscilla; Saupe, William – Rural Development Perspectives, 1986
Survey information from 1,616 farm families in Wisconsin, Mississippi, and Tennessee was used to construct a viability ratio measuring a family's ability to meet its obligations from total income. Coupled with other farm characteristics, the ratio allows policymakers to see why some farms are viable and others are not. (JHZ)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Differences, Economic Factors, Employment Patterns
The Economic Base of Recent Population Growth in Nonmetropolitan Settings.
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Long, Larry; DeAre, Diana – 1982
In the late 1970s both jobs and population were growing more rapidly outside metropolitan areas. As a group, nonmetropolitan counties not adjacent to a metropolitan area experienced a faster rate of employment growth than metropolitan areas between 1975-79. Even in rural counties (no urban place of 2,500 or more) not adjacent to a metropolitan…
Descriptors: Change, Comparative Analysis, Demography, Economic Development
The Effects of Population Interchange on Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Counties in Texas: An Evaluation of the Equilibrium Hypothesis.
Hwang, Sean-Shong; Murdock, Steve H. – 1986
To explain the migration turnaround of the 1970s, it has been suggested that the United States may be approaching an equilibrium state in the exchange of populations between metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas. As metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas have become more similar in population composition and industrial and socioeconomic…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Demography, Employment Patterns, Hypothesis Testing
The Implications of Urban Occupational Patterns on Traditional Rural Life: Implications for Cultural Contradictions.
Bryant, Clifton D.; And Others – 1980
In 1979 a stratified random sampling of 541 families in 4 rural Virginia counties were interviewed about major occupations, secondary occupations, travel to work, and whether the division of labor within the county allowed for a complete exchange system. Data, compared to 1940 census statistics, indicated that a significant change in occupational…
Descriptors: Agricultural Occupations, Community Satisfaction, Comparative Analysis, Employed Women
Changing Structure of Rural Employment in the Federal Republic of Germany - the Case of Rural Youth, 1955-1980.
Planck, Ulrich – 1981
Trends in employment in West Germany evolved from analysis of a rural youth survey based on interviews from 1955, 1968, and 1980. Persons surveyed were from 17 to 28 years of age and lived in settlements of 5,000 inhabitants or less. During the time period (1955-1980), the youth employment rate decreased from 74% to 67%. Agricultural jobs…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Agricultural Laborers, Agricultural Occupations, Career Choice
Work, Unemployment and Study in the Lives of Young Women from Country Areas. Research Study No. 73.
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Stoessiger, Rex – 1982
An analysis of a 1979 questionnaire and interviews with young women leaving school or continuing their education in country areas of Tasmania revealed that the females were having greater difficulty in obtaining employment and were the most isolated when unemployed. For this reason it was considered desirable to continue the study. A questionnaire…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Dropouts, Educational Status Comparison, Employer Attitudes