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Peer reviewedAdamchak, Donald J. – Rural Sociology, 1987
Surveys importance of economic and environmental factors in motivation of metro- and nonmetro-origin migrants relocating in 13 Kansas nonmetropolitan nonamenity turnaround counties. Finds employment-related reasons predominate, with economic characteristics of counties a significant factor. Quality of life/environmental reasons were less…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Decision Making, Economic Factors, Employment
Download full textMiller, Michael V.; Maril, Robert Lee – 1978
Relative to other urbanized areas, the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas consistently ranks at the bottom in regard to almost every objective indicator of socioeconomic welfare: per capita income, educational attainment, employment, and health and housing conditions. The 1970 census discovered that approximately one-half of its population,…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Area Studies, Cultural Influences, Disadvantaged Environment
