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Goldstone, Seymour; Schiffel, Dennis – 1971
The report presents the results of a study which indicate that demographic comparisons of labor force participation rates are most fruitfully made on the basis of sex, age, educational attainment, presence of small children, race, and marital status. Also that the most important demographic comparisons of groups employment (unemployment) rates are…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, Demography, Economic Research
International Center for Research on Women, Washington, DC. – 1981
A study of women in migration in Third World countries since 1960 reveals that, contrary to assumptions, more women are migrating autonomously from rural to urban areas in an often unsuccessful effort to improve their economic status. The results of the study of migration patterns in Africa, Asia, Central America, South America, and the Middle…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, Demography, Developing Nations
Johnson, Ronald L.; Johnson, Kent J. – 1968
A study compared social and social-psychological characteristics of 112 male respondents who moved to 4 other states from North Dakota (the most rural state in the nation) between the years 1961 and 1965 with similar characteristics of 513 North Dakota male residents who remained in their respective communities throughout the five-year period.…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Comparative Analysis, Demography, Males
Lefberg, Irv; And Others – 1996
This publication provides actual historical and long-term forecast data on labor force, total wage and salary employment, industry employment, and personal income for the state of Washington. The data are based upon the Washington Office of Financial Management long-term population forecast. Chapter 1 presents long-term forecasts of Washington…
Descriptors: Change Agents, Demand Occupations, Demography, Employment Opportunities
Congress of the U.S., Washington, DC. Senate Special Committee on Aging. – 1982
The hearing's purpose was to begin building a record, from a national perspective, regarding older Americans who live in smaller towns and rural areas. It is not fully known what the real impact is of such matters as lack of transportation, nutritional deficiencies, distance to and shortage of health care, non-availability of adult education…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Delivery Systems, Demography, Farmers
Youssef, Nadia; And Others – 1979
Spurred in part by the apparent contradiction between recent data on the magnitude of autonomous female migration and the lack of acknowledgment of that data in recent literature, a 1979 study attempted to define women migrants in 46 Third World Countries in terms of age, marital status, socioeconomic status, factors motivating migration, and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, Demography, Developing Nations