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Peer reviewedWilliams, Anne S.; Jobes, Patrick C. – Journal of Rural Studies, 1990
Among 299 recent in-migrants to the Gallatin Valley, Montana, reasons for relocating were highly correlated with reasons for choosing that area. Higher socioeconomic status (SES) subjects identified both economic and quality-of-life factors in area selection, while lower SES subjects mentioned only quality-of-life factors. Contains 43 references.…
Descriptors: Economic Factors, Quality of Life, Relocation, Rural Areas
Download full textMcNamara, Kevin T.; Kriesel, Warren – 1990
The economic benefit that communities derive from in-migration of retired persons has been well recognized in rural development literature. This paper examines the impact of Georgia county attributes on net migration by persons 55 years old and older from 1975 to 1980. Data were obtained from the 1982 County-City Data Book, the U.S. Census…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Influences, Least Squares Statistics, Middle Aged Adults
Peer reviewedSofranko, Andrew J.; Fliegel, Frederick C. – Rural Sociology, 1984
Data from a 1977 telephone survey of 501 urban to rural North Carolina migrants show global satisfaction measures reflect more than is included in standard lists of community attributes and reflect satisfaction with few attributes in particlar. The analysis demonstrates community satisfaction can help explain respondents' potential for moving…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Community Satisfaction, Item Analysis, Migration
Peer reviewedMay, Peter J. – Social Science Quarterly, 1982
The relationships among people's satisfaction with current living conditions, expectations concerning future conditions, and prospective mobility are examined for residents of large cities. Research results show that efforts to enhance expectations of improved physical conditions will help to nullify outmigration from central cities as well as…
Descriptors: Community Satisfaction, Expectation, Futures (of Society), Quality of Life
Peer reviewedAdamchak, Donald J. – Rural Sociology, 1987
Surveys importance of economic and environmental factors in motivation of metro- and nonmetro-origin migrants relocating in 13 Kansas nonmetropolitan nonamenity turnaround counties. Finds employment-related reasons predominate, with economic characteristics of counties a significant factor. Quality of life/environmental reasons were less…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Decision Making, Economic Factors, Employment
Ploch, Louis A. – 1985
Out-of-state persons moving to Maine during the July through December period of either 1980 or 1983 were queried to determine why they chose Maine, what their levels of satisfaction were with life in Maine, and in what activities they participated or planned to participate. The majority of the 417 survey respondents were from large counties in the…
Descriptors: Citizen Participation, Community Satisfaction, Family Mobility, Geographic Location
