This sourcebook includes an annotated bibliography of population literature, university centers, libraries, international organizations, and U. S. government programs in the field of population. The sourcebook is designed, first of all, to be useful for the concerned layman and secondly for the professional demographic community. The sourcebook is…

Examines characteristics of the residential movement of a sample of individual black households in both segregated and integrated neighborhoods in twelve large cities of the northern and western United States, reporting analyses of the process of adjustment to a new environment the "mover-stayer" concept, and the integration status of a migrant's…

This testimony, before a public hearing of the New York City Commission on Human Rights, concludes that in many ways northern cities seem to be characterized not so much by excessive migration of blacks from the south, but by inadequate migration from one northern metropolitan area to another. (Author/JM)

Describes selected characteristics of a group of black disadvantaged urban migrants and discusses the factors that relate to problems of employment they face in the city. (JM)

This report presents population estimates for July 1, 1974, and provisional estimates for July 1, 1975, for all counties and county equivalents in the United States, by state. Estimates are also shown for standard metropolitan statistical areas, New England county metropolitan areas, and 13 standard consolidated statistical areas. The estimates,…

The United States is a highly urbanized nation with space in abundance, yet large portions of its national territory are emptying out. The counterpart of this pervasive population decline is a highly selective pattern of growth, conferred by a national system of migration flows that has increasingly favored a certain few metropolitan areas. This…

In this report, the black population of the U.S. is examined for patterns of residence and education, using information developed by the U.S. Bureau of the Census in 1970 and 1971. Selected census statistics are reported. A unit of black urban concentration somewhat different from the standard metropolitan statistical area used by the Bureau of…

According to the results of an in-depth study of the process of population change in New York State, the less densely settled an area, the more likely it is to grow in the 1970's. This is more evidence of the recent major U.S. demographic phenomenon of a revival of population growth in non-metropolitan areas. Population data for the sixty-two…

Focusing on changes in differential growth in areas inside and outside places of 2,500 and highlighting recent patterns of concentration/deconcentration, this report documents trends in population redistribution within metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas of the United States between 1950 and 1975. In sum, the report shows apparent…

It is proposed in this document that the selectivity of migration, in terms of both people and places become a more imposing influence in urbanization as the role of natural increase as a source of urban growth diminishes. Recent U.S. growth policy proposals have frequently been marked by a simplistic view of how urban growth works, compounded by…

In this retrospective review of demographic aspects of race and the metropolis, presented as a basis from which to speculate about the 1970's, the period of mass migration of blacks out of the rural South is seen as drawing to a close. The U.S. black population is more urban and more metropolitan than the white population. The development of black…

The tables in this report show birthplace and residence in 1956 for the Negro population in the six standard metropolitan statistical areas (SMSA's) which contained a central city with 500,000 or more Negro population at the time of the 1970 census. The tables show that Southern-born blacks living in the six metropolitan areas generally are…

Maintains that Chinese urbanization is proceeding rapidly in step with population growth and a structural shift in employment patterns. Discusses governmental policies and economic reforms that enhance the urbanization process. Describes four extended metropolitan areas and maintains they will be the models for future urbanization. (CFR)

Wilmington, Delaware, a medium-sized industrial center in the eastern United States, was the site for this study of migration. The report presents some of the major ideas, hypotheses, and findings of a study on recruitment, movement, and assimilation of migrants into Wilmington. Data for the study were obtained from the 1960 census figures and…

Information on the number and location of U.S. artists, as reported in the 1980 Census of Population, is examined, and comparisons are made with 1970 Census figures. This document describes national growth trends in specific art occupations and regional changes in comparison to total labor force changes. The impact of migration on the distribution…