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de Groot, Carola; Daalhuizen, Femke B. C.; van Dam, Frank; Mulder, Clara H. – Journal of Rural Studies, 2012
One of the most pressing questions in the rural gentrification literature is whether rural residents face difficulties in finding a home within their locality due to the influx of more wealthy newcomers. In this paper, we investigate the extent to which intended local movers and intended non-local movers have realised their rural residential…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Housing, Urban Areas, Preferences
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Speare, Alden, Jr.; Goldscheider, Frances Kobrin – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1987
Used longitudinal data to assess effects of marriage, divorce, and widowhood on immediate relocation and on subsequent mobility patterns. Results demonstrated substantial impact of changes in marital status on mobility. Mobility rates were highest among newly married, almost as high in years of separation or divorce, and very low in first year of…
Descriptors: Divorce, Longitudinal Studies, Marital Status, Marriage
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Verropoulou, Georgia; Joshi, Heather; Wiggins, Richard – Children & Society, 2002
Examined the relationship between moving home, family structure, and children's well-being in the National Child Development Study (NCDS) Second-Generation, a study following over 17,000 Britons born in 1 week in 1958. Found little to no association between moving home and children's well-being. Associations between family living arrangements and…
Descriptors: Children, Cohort Analysis, Family Mobility, Family Structure
White, Carolyn C., Comp.; And Others – 1987
This report provides statistics on persons with mental retardation in state-operated residential facilities in the United States. Part I presents population data for fiscal year 1986. The statistics represent aggregated data compiled by each state. Data include number of facilities, average daily population, first admissions, readmissions,…
Descriptors: Age, Clinical Diagnosis, Costs, Demography
Monk, Phillip M.; Medina, Dennis – 1975
The study assessed the stability or change in the residential orientations of rural Mexican American youth living near the Texas-Mexico border, examined changes in the local social and economic environment, and made some predictions as to their effects on the students' dispositions. In the springs of 1967 and 1973, questionnaires were administered…
Descriptors: Aspiration, Comparative Analysis, Expectation, Females
Coleman, James S. – 1975
The analysis of this paper is directed primarily to the question of the effect of school desegregation on loss of white children from large central-city school systems. This analysis is taken from James S. Coleman, Sara D. Kelly, and John A. Moore, Trends in School Segregation, 1968-73 (1975). The data are taken from annual reports by all school…
Descriptors: Desegregation Effects, Desegregation Methods, Inner City, Longitudinal Studies