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Pollard, Kevin; Jacobsen, Linda A. – Appalachian Regional Commission, 2021
This report presents state- and county-level data for the Appalachian Region. The 12 chapters focus on: (1) Population Basics; (2) Age; (3) Race and Hispanic Origin; (4) Housing Occupancy, Tenure, and Type; (5) Education, Device Ownership, and Internet Access; (6) Labor Force, Employment, and Unemployment; (7) Transportation and Commuting…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, Urban Areas, Geographic Regions, Regional Characteristics
Pollard, Kelvin; Jacobsen, Linda A. – Appalachian Regional Commission, 2020
This report presents state- and county-level data for the Appalachian Region. The 12 chapters focus on: (1) Population Basics; (2) Age; (3) Race and Hispanic Origin; (4) Housing Occupancy, Tenure, and Type; (5) Education, Device Ownership, and Internet Access; (6) Labor Force, Employment, and Unemployment; (7) Transportation and Commuting…
Descriptors: Regional Characteristics, Geographic Regions, Population Trends, Population Distribution
Price, Daniel O. – 1969
This is the second volume of a study that evaluated rural migration patterns of Mexican Americans, Negroes, and Anglo-Americans who moved from the Southern States to urban areas. Six of the 14 chapters in the report are included in this volume, covering analysis of occupational distribution among white collar, blue collar and semiskilled,…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Attitudes, Blacks, Economic Factors
Sher, Jonathan P.; And Others – 1975
Like agriculture, public education in rural America has increasingly moved away from a small community orientation to larger consolidations. The forces of modernization, consolidation, and urbanization challenge the rural community to create a pragmatically viable alternative to the metropolitan way of life, because by adopting urban practices and…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Comparative Analysis, Educational Problems, Educational Quality
Carpenter, Edwin H. – 1976
In an effort to provide conceptual meaning to the role of residential preferences and their influence upon migration behavior in the context of a changing society, data derived from a 1973 statewide survey of Arizona heads of households (a random sample of 1,416 people) were analyzed in terms of: (1) residential preference and spatial proximity to…
Descriptors: Community Size, Distance, Economic Factors, Futures (of Society)
Byerlee, Derek; Eicher, Carl K. – 1972
Employment problems in Africa were examined with special emphasis on rural employment and migration within the context of overall economic development. A framework was provided for analyzing rural employment in development; that framework was used to analyze empirical information from Africa; and theoretical issues were raised in analyzing rural…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Capital, Developing Nations, Economic Development