Search Results for Percent Moving

... “motivated” movement to Santiago, and other aspects oj the migratory move itself were also topics of inquiry. Tabulations of this survey portray Santiago as a city of great in-migration. The flow is estimated to be between 1.5 and 1.7 percent per year. Among the population 15 years of age or over, about 50...

.... About 25 percent of residential mobility and 40 percent of migration occurred under conditions of substantial constraint. Mobility was most often constrained by family dynamics; for migration, occupational relocations frequently imposed the decision-to-move process and determined destinations...

... one year and over, including members of the Armed Forces living off post or with their families, approximately 13 percent have moved within the past year to a different house within the same country (intra-metropolitan or intra- country movers), while approximately 6-7 per- cent have moved...

... to nonmetropolitan areas, in contrast to net out-migration of 350,000 persons from these areas in 1965–1970. Reversal was caused by a 12 percent decrease in the number of nonmetropolitan out-migrants and a 23 percent increase in the number of SMSA residents moving to nonmetropolitan territory over 1965–1970 levels...

... characteristics of migrant women and to determining differences and similarities in age, educa- tional level, occupation, and type of move (first, return, or repeat) between movers to the capital and to other urban areas. Data are from a five percent sample of the 1970 Chilean census. Findings reveal that non...

... theory. 27 1 2011 © Population Association of America 1978 1978 Residential Mobility Residential Stability Residential Evaluation Residential Satisfaction Percent Moving References Anderson , Nels ( 1923 ). The Hobo: The Sociology of the Homeless Man . Chicago...

...Larry H. Long; Kristin A. Hansen Abstract The rate of return migration to the South rose by nearly 19 percent between the late 1950’s and the late 1960’s and was an important factor in changing the South’s overall migration pattern. But an increase in the rate of return migration was somewhat less...

... tended to have higher migration efficiency than whites. Rapidly growing metropolitan areas had higher migration efficiency ratios than areas growing at a lower rate or losing population. The educational level of a metropolitan area, as measured by the percent of the population 25 years old or over...

... as a stimulus to local moving since Most of the following discussion will an important reason for such moves is refer to "typical" families in which both perceived inadequacy of housing (U. S. husband and wife are present. Such fami- Bureau of the Census, 1966; Lansing and lies constitute about 87 percent...

... of migration level but progressed no further. differentiale, The primary value of a The number of persons at each of the short interval is that it is more likely to educational levels is shown in column 1. record characteristics at the time of Column 2 gives the percent changing moving. Not only does a long...

...) Location Social Bonds Figure I.-Model for the first stage of mobility decision making: the determinants of who considers moving. 202 later. A total of 72 or slightly more than ten percent moved. The key hypothesis tested in the analysis was that the five background variables would operate on the wish...

... of the population. These findings are consistent with the observation by Lansing and Mueller (1967, pp. 204-207) that only 18 percent of those who had not moved in the last five years had given any serious con- sideration to moving. The mover-stayer model gets around this problem by assuming that some peo- ple...

... percent of the cases, emigrants from a commune are not immediately recorded as such in the population register, a problem discussed by Di Rienzo (1957) and Cariani (1977). Moreover, the Italian population register only deals with people who give up one residence and take up a new one. Short-term moves...

... percent of the population resided in 318 standard metropolitan statistical areas (SMSAs), containing more than 800 counties. Since metropolitan areas are designated to approximate local labor markets," one may choose to classifyall individuals who move within metropolitan areas as "local movers," even...

... are among the most important reasons given for migrating. Lansing and Mueller (1967) found that 67 percent of migrants migrated for purely economic reasons, and another 14 percent moved for at least partly economic reasons. Petersen (1968) argued that economic motives were clearly the most important...

... full-time schooling appear to have been moving to full-time employment, although military service was an important option for males, as was becoming a full-time homemaker for females. By 1979, 59 percent of women were employed full time and another 28 percent were full-time homemakers. Consistent...

... to in 1970 are as likely to have returned to return to their place of origin if they con- their state of birth between 1965 and 1970 tinue in (or return to) farming. Otherwise, as to have moved to a third state, those in about 7 or 8 percent of all employed males service jobs are somewhat more likely to who...

... moved in with friends or relatives, a finding consistent with other studies of evacuations from disaster areas (e.g., Drabek 1986). Eighteen percent rented or bought a house or apart- ment; 13% moved into a hotel or motel; 8% stayed at their prehurricane location in a tent, mobile home, or recreational...

... variable that summarizes a number of factors that might restrict the freedom of individuals to leave. These 156 DEMOGRAPHY, volume 14, number 2, May 1977 Table I.-Frequency Distribution for the Satisfaction Variable Expecting Move in Percent Moved at Cumulative to Three-Year Each Level of Code Frequency...

... providing rural in-migrants, 70.0 were linked. The cor- responding proportions for 1897 were 79, 75, and 78 percent. Thus in both periods, a considerable proportion of the in-migra- tion was from neighboring gubernii. More women migrated than men and this probably reflects moves of women to neighboring...