Using 1970 Census data, rural counties are compared to all U.S. counties by selected personal, education, employment, and income population characteristics. (MS)

Employs the 1967 Survey of Economic Opportunity'' data to test hypotheses about differences in migration selectivity depending on the structural distance traversed in the migration process. (Author/JM)

Students need a wide range of experiences in considering the biological, social, economic, and psychological aspects of crowding on their lives and on their community. (DF)

A mathematical expression of the classic zone and sector phenomena in the distribution of residential neighborhood characteristics in urban areas is developed. (Author/JB)

Here is inside information on a wealth of useful data and where and when it will be available. (Editor)

Discusses recent labor force trends and how they affect research methodology. Tables are included which indicate new estimates and trends in worklife expectancy, measures of labor force mobility, and trends in mobility rates. (CT)

Investigated factors related to math anxiety in college students. Results indicated math anxiety occurs frequently and is more likely to occur among women and students with inadequate high school math backgrounds. Higher levels of math anxiety were related to lower mathematics achievement test scores and higher levels of test anxiety. (Author/BEF)

Behavior of preschoolers was studied with respect to five factors: verbally-abusive interaction, activity-toy play, avoidance, negative affect-agression, and desire-to-leave-a-crowded-room. Under high density conditions, more girls exhibited reduced activity level and toy involvement, along with increased negative feelings, than boys. (MA)

Israel's "development towns" are known to be comparable to U.S. inner cities in all but one respect: while most agree that Blacks are over-represented in the inner cities because of discrimination, there is still disagreement over how Middle Eastern Jews (Mizrahim) came to be over-represented in the towns relative to European Jews…

This research focuses on pathways by which national level macro-social transformations are transmitted to local communities. Our case is Hungary where we examine the relationship between post-socialist economic restructuring, widespread industrial dislocations, and urban-rural migration. Using secondary data from the Hungarian Central Statistical…

This article is a discussion of some geographical problems related to geographic and population centers of the U.S. The focus is on modeling, using concepts from calculus.

A description of the geographic planning and operation of the 1990 U.S. Census presented in cartoon form, this booklet carries the user through the stages of the development of the materials needed for census field enumeration activities. Maps were drawn for address reference files, and geographic reference files were created. These cartoons…