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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
PDF pending restorationPerkinson, Leon B. – 1978
Examining the relationship between urban to rural migrants and household income, 2,118 respondents representing urban and rural populations stratified across different labor markets within 8 counties in the northeastern Coastal Plains of North Carolina were surveyed. The variables employed were: households by race, female head, absence of 1974…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Age, Differences, Family Income
Download full textClifford, William B. – 1977
Estimates of population change and the components of change for North Carolina and its counties were made for the 1970-75 period. Attention was given to the growth patterns in the metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas of North Carolina and the southern region. Data showed that the state's population grew at a faster rate during this period than…
Descriptors: Birth Rate, Census Figures, Comparative Analysis, Death
Peer reviewedChristenson, James A. – Rural Sociology, 1979
Examination of the implications on population redistribution of different value orientations of potential migrants and nonmigrants indicated that value-based push-pull forces seem to operate primarily on potential nonmetro-to-metro movers. Potential areas of social conflict stemming from such redistribution were noted. (Author/SB)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Demography, Migrants, Migration
Bradshaw, Ted K.; Blakely, Edward J. – 1982
An analysis of rural population growth and its economic consequences in California, Wisconsin, North Carolina, and Vermont helps explain the changing conditions in rural America and indicates the direction policy should take. Despite their distance from financial centers and their low density, rural areas are generally characterized by a more…
Descriptors: Economic Change, Economic Development, Economically Disadvantaged, Government Role
Blakely, Edward J.; And Others – 1983
Eleven papers on rural economic development cover challenges and opportunities; employment trends affecting nonmetropolitan areas; status of nonmetropolitan women and minorities; case studies of Vermont, North Carolina, Wisconsin, and California; western urban and regional development; economic development in small cities; and rural policy…
Descriptors: Case Studies, Census Figures, College Role, Economic Change
