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Peer reviewedMunick, Warren A.; Sullivan, Dennis – Rural Sociology, 1977
The article examines gross migration of households between nonmetropolitan and metropolitan areas, as well as the corresponding counterstream, from 1965 to 1970. Using data from the 15 percent sample of the 1970 census, gross migration flows and rates are estimated and cross-classified by race, age, and marital status. (Author/NQ)
Descriptors: Age, Family Status, Marital Status, Metropolitan Areas
Download full textLi, Wen Lang; Randolph, Sheron L. – 1980
Recent trends indicate that the traditional pattern of South to North migration has shifted toward a counterstream movement back to the South. This trend has been particularly characteristic of Southern blacks. To examine this development, data on a sample of blacks in the 1970 United States census were analyzed by comparing individual and…
Descriptors: Age, Blacks, Educational Attainment, Employment Level
Peer reviewedLichter, Daniel T.; And Others – Rural Sociology, 1979
Compositional change in migration streams between nonmetropolitan and metropolitan areas are examined in relation to the post-1970 migration "turnaround." Analysis focuses on (1) changes in the sex, age, educational and occupational selectivity, and interchange of migration, and (2) the impact of migration on population composition. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, Demography, Migration
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
Miller, A. R. – 1974
The character of black migration, as well as the significance that migration will play in the future of the black population is examined in this paper. Section I of the paper presents an introduction. Section II addresses recent migration to metropolitan areas, focusing on the origins of recent migrants, characteristics of recent migrants (age,…
Descriptors: Age, Black Community, Black Culture, Black Population Trends
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
Bowles, Gladys K. – Agricultural Economics Research, 1978
An assessment of contributions of metro/nonmetro migrants to the population and labor force of nonmetro localities is presented in narrative and tables, with data based on special tabulations from the March 1975 Current Population Survey of the Bureau of the Census. Migrants are described in terms of characteristics (compared by race, sex, age,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, Comparative Analysis, Demography
