Summary information

Study title

Survey of Extra County Migration, 1974

Creator

Mapstone, J. R., State University of New York, Department of Sociology

Study number / PID

2057 (UKDA)

10.5255/UKDA-SN-2057-1 (DOI)

Data access

Restricted

Series

Not available

Abstract

Abstract copyright UK Data Service and data collection copyright owner.

To investigate counterstream migration to rural areas, specifically rural areas with static or declining populations.
Main Topics:

Variables
Migrant status (having lived in a county different from the present one), age, occupation, education, family composition, migration history, social participation, rural residence preference, satisfaction with the community (Schulze, Artcs, Beegle), committment to community actions. Attitude towards citizens duty, information, exposure and knowledge of formal power structure.
Measurement Scales
a) Rural Urban Residential Preference Scale (Martin, W.T., <i>The rural urban fringe</i> (Eugene Oregon: The University Press, 1953)
b) Community Satisfaction Scale (Schulze, R., Artcs, J. and Beegle, J. Allan, 'The measurement of community satisfaction', <i>Rural Sociology</i> 28 (September) 1963, pp.279-283.

Housing

AGEATTITUDESCHILDRENCOMMUNITIESCOMMUNITY ACTIONCOMMUNITY BEHAVIOURCOMMUNITY LEADERSCOUNTRYSIDEEDUCATIONAL BACKGROUNDELECTIONSEMPLOYMENTENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY

Data collection period

01/06/1974 - 15/08/1974

Country

United States

Time dimension

Cross-sectional (one-time) study

Analysis unit

Individuals

Subnational

Heads of households

Migrants

Rural residents

Universe

Residents in a minor civil division in Clinton County, New York which lost the greatest number of people of any minor civil division in the County and which at the same time enumerated a substantial number of persons who had not lived in the County five years before

Sampling procedure

A twenty per-cent systematic sample was drawn from the land records (tax records)

Kind of data

Not available

Data collection mode

Face-to-face interview

Publisher

UK Data Service

Publication year

1985

Terms of data access

The Data Collection is available to UK Data Service registered users subject to the End User Licence Agreement.

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Mapstone, J. (1975) Moving to the country : : return migration to a rural area [Research report], : Rural Sociological Society.