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Shelton, Beth Anne – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1987
Found a strong correlation between residential mobility rate and a measure of marital dissolution. Concluded that community size and marital dissolution correlated positively because of higher levels of residential mobility in large cities and urban areas than in small cities and rural areas. Found high residential mobility both an indicator and a…
Descriptors: Community Size, Divorce, Family Problems, Marital Instability
Nicholson, Beryl – 1976
Migration over a period of 20 years in 3 neighbouring, but contrasting, communes in North Norway was examined to determine whether a village or small town in a rural area functioned as an intervening opportunity for the area's rural inhabitants. The nature and effects of local migration which occurred in a predominantly rural area during the…
Descriptors: Age, Community Size, Demography, Foreign Countries
Fuguitt, Glenn V.; And Others – 1981
Focusing on changes in differential growth in areas inside and outside places of 2,500 and highlighting recent patterns of concentration/deconcentration, this report documents trends in population redistribution within metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas of the United States between 1950 and 1975. In sum, the report shows apparent…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Community Size, Demography, Metropolitan Areas