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Download full textBanks, Vera; Beale, Calvin L. – 1969
Total farm population has continued to decrease; the April 1968 average of 10,454,000 persons reflected an estimated drop of 421,000 since April 1967. The regional distribution remained the same, however, with the largest concentration in the South, about 45 percent, while the North Central Region ranked second with 39 percent. During 1967-1968,…
Descriptors: Farmers, Migration, Population Distribution, Population Trends
Banks, Vera J.; Beale, Calvin L. – 1972
Utilizing data obtained from the 1970 and 1966 June Enumerative Surveys, the U.S. farm population (both operator and nonoperator) was identified by race, tenure, and value of farm products. Data were analyzed in reference to the following questions: (1) How many and what proportion of farm people live on farms of adequate and/or marginal…
Descriptors: Agricultural Laborers, Blacks, Comparative Analysis, Economic Status
Beale, Calvin L. – Rural Manpower Developments, 1972
Descriptors: Demography, Dropouts, Migration Patterns, Population Distribution
Beale, Calvin L. – Rural Development Perspectives, 1988
Examines increasing rural to urban migration as caused by farming crises, employment cutbacks, slow rural population growth in 1980s, and slow rural recovery from recession. The migration was especially heavy during 1983-1986. Cites indicators showing possible future reversal. Includes charts, graphs, and maps. (Author/TES)
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Demography, Dislocated Workers, Economic Climate
Glasgow, Nina; Beale, Calvin L. – Rural Development Perspectives, 1985
Examines general demographic, social, and economic situation of older rural people and how their conditons do or do not differ from those of older urbanites. Contrasts migration trends, living arrangements, income, housing, transportation, communication, and health. Figures and tables provide population, residency, living arrangement, and poverty…
Descriptors: Community Satisfaction, Health Needs, Housing Needs, Middle Aged Adults
Fuguitt, Glenn V.; Fulton, John A.; Beale, Calvin L. – 2001
This report measures the amount of black migration from and to the nonmetropolitan parts of the United States south from 1965-70 and 1990-95. It considers trends both within the south and with the rest of the nation. For perspective, comparisons are made with the movement of the non-black population, more than 90 percent of which is white. In the…
Descriptors: Blacks, Educational Attainment, Migration Patterns, Population Distribution
Beale, Calvin L.; Fuguitt, Glenn V. – 1985
All through the 1970-1980 decade, growth of population took place in the rural and small town areas of the United States where very little had occurred in earlier recent decades. In general, the trend can be viewed as one that was primarily socially motivated but facilitated by improved rural economic conditions. By contrast, in the first 3 years…
Descriptors: Geographic Distribution, Migration Patterns, Motivation, Population Distribution
