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Graff, Thomas O. – 1978
Changes have occurred in the geographic concentrations of elderly people in the United States between 1950 and 1970. The paper examines these trends and identifies the factors which influenced them. Census data from 1950 and 1970 were analyzed as a basis for the study. In 1950, 8.1% of the population was classified as older. States with high…
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Demography, Economic Change, Economic Factors
Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, DC. Language and Orientation Resource Center. – 1981
As an introduction to Afghani refugees in the United States, this report discusses various aspects of Afghani life both in the U.S. and Afghanistan. Within the discussion of Afghani cultural background, Afghani history, geography, livelihood, language, ethnicity, religion, art, food and dress, festivities, names, and social structure are reviewed.…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Art, Consonants, Cultural Background
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
Inman, Marjorie – 1980
The existing physical forms of housing are not always compatible with prevalent social patterns. To investigate the relationship between family system characteristics and attitudes about residential space, 64 Indiana families in 4 stages of the family life cycle (early years with no children, crowded years with at least one preschool child, peak…
Descriptors: Building Design, Family Characteristics, Family Environment, Housing Needs
Heller, Tamar – 1980
This paper reviews the research of the effects of involuntary residential relocation on the personal adjustment of institutionalized individuals, i.e., the institutionalized elderly, mentally ill, and mentally retarded. Discrepant findings in studies of involuntary relocation are discussed in terms of the transferees' personal characteristics, the…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Coping, Ecology, Emotional Adjustment
Smither, Robert; Rodriquez-Giegling, Marta – 1980
This study predicts willingness of refugees to acculturate to North American society based on selected demographic and psychological variables. The hypothesis is that most previous research on refugee adaptation has overemphasized sociological variables such as age, time in the country, and level of education and underemphasized psychological…
Descriptors: Acculturation, Asian Americans, Cultural Differences, Ethnic Groups
Nolan, Michael F.; And Others – 1979
To compare various socio-demographic indicators and attitudes on community issues of recent urban to rural migrants with those of native residents, personal interviews were conducted with an adult in 3391 households in the 5 county Meramec Area of Missouri during the fall of 1977. Of the respondents, 24% had lived in the county 7 years or less,…
Descriptors: Community Attitudes, Community Services, Delivery Systems, Demography
Young, Robert W., Comp. – 1961
The Navajo Yearbook began as an annual report to relate progress in carrying out provisions of the Navajo-Hopi Long Range Rehabilitation Act (P.L. 474 - 81st Congress), but the scope has been expanded to include all programs conducted on the reservation. This volume, the eighth in the series, is designed to reflect changing problems, changing…
Descriptors: American Indians, Economic Development, Education, Educational Environment
Dunn, Dennis J.; And Others – 1973
The project for which the document is the final report began with concern over rapid turnover among vocational evaluators in rehabilitation facilities. The job turnover problem was analyzed according to the Minnesota theory of work adjustment. Resulting data suggest that vocational evaluators who change jobs do so because of dissatisfaction with…
Descriptors: Career Counseling, Counselor Training, Employee Attitudes, Job Satisfaction
Department of Indian Affairs and Northern Development, Ottawa (Ontario). – 1976
Comprised of tabular statistics regarding the American Indian student enrollment of Alberta, Canada, this annual report presents the following: (1) total enrollment statistics (a comparative table designating Indian enrollment for each year from 1937 to 1975 in Indian Federal, Indian residential, and provincial schools; a 1975 enrollment summary…
Descriptors: American Indians, Annual Reports, Boarding Schools, Comparative Analysis
Morrison, Peter A. – 1974
It is proposed in this document that the selectivity of migration, in terms of both people and places become a more imposing influence in urbanization as the role of natural increase as a source of urban growth diminishes. Recent U.S. growth policy proposals have frequently been marked by a simplistic view of how urban growth works, compounded by…
Descriptors: Demography, Economic Factors, Geographic Location, Migration Patterns
Haber, William; And Others – 1963
Technological change is a complex term involving many more factors than "changes in machinery or automation." Six changes which affect jobs and influence skills in our industrial systems that could logically be called technological change have been identified: (1) scientific management, or time and motion studies, (2) mergers and consolidations,…
Descriptors: Administration, Automation, Individual Characteristics, Job Layoff
Crane, Donald A.; Chinitz, Benjamin – 1966
The area of Appalachia, peopled largely by white Anglo Saxons who have retained many of their old folkways, has based its economic life on coal mining, forestry, and subsistence farming. Since these activities have provided increasingly inadequate opportunities, the prevailing low levels of income, education, and community facilities in urban,…
Descriptors: Anglo Americans, Community Resources, Economic Development, Educationally Disadvantaged
Sepulveda, Sergio; Loomis, Ralph A. – 1973
The urban-associated adjustment problems of Spanish speaking migrants to Seattle, Washington were examined. A sample of 100 migrant household heads were interviewed to learn why they had moved to Seattle, to gain insights into the adjustment process, and to search for ways to facilitate their accommodation to an urban life style. All of the…
Descriptors: Adjustment (to Environment), Employment Opportunities, Heads of Households, Income
Groves, Robert H.; McCormick, Robert W. – 1976
This study was designed to compare farm brothers who stayed in the rural areas of Ohio with urban brothers who migrated to large metropolitan areas of Ohio. The objectives were (1) to identify and compare selected characteristics of farm owners or operators who stayed on a farm in the Appalachian region of Ohio with selected characteristics of…
Descriptors: Demography, Economic Research, Family Mobility, Farmers
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