Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Hawaii at Manoa, 2001. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves 293-308). Also available on microfiche.

In this investigation, selected demographic and social psychological factors affecting migration within eight United States cities are examined. More specifically, the study examines migration in terms of previous neighborhood satisfaction, perceived initial attraction of present neighborhood, present neighborhood satisfaction, family life cycle, residence tenure, race, sex, income, and education. The data for this investigation are taken from the 1975 National Crime Survey Attitude Sub-Sample Files. Using length of residence to define migration status, 2,047 migrants and 1,928 non-migrants comprise the sample for this investigation. Zero-order and multiple correlation measures are utilized in the analysis of migration in terms of the previously mentioned variables.

Call number: LD2668 .T4 1978 M45 / Master of Arts

Being located between the Great Lakes and the Ohio River which served as the two major migration routes to the West, Mid-Western Pennsylvania has been viewed by various historians as a region whose settlement was delayed and growth retarded due to this isolation. This study analyzes the geographic, economic, political, and ethnological factors which influenced original settlement and the population's growth through 1860.The study reviews events of the second half of the eighteenth century when the region became the focus of intense strategic, commercial and political rivalries. The forces vying for domination of the area were in sequential order: The Iroquois Confederacy and the Erie nation, the French fur traders and the English fur traders, the French Empire and the English Empire, the American colonies in revolt and the British Empire and finally the newly independent states of Pennsylvania and Virginia.With the rivalries resolved and the sovereignty of Pennsylvania verified, the struggle between land speculators and pioneer farmers for easy access to control of the lands in the region became a paramount issue after 1790. The study analyzes the three land distribution schemes devised by the state of Pennsylvania and the confusion which their application.Despite the isolation of the region, its geographic limitations, uncertainty over sovereignty, and confusion with land titles, a quantitative measurement of population growth and density in the study area indicates that growth did not languish as severely as many secondary sources imply. Using the remainder of Pennsylvania, Ohio and the Northwest Territory for purposes of comparison in both growth and density, it appears that in both categories Mid-Western Pennsylvania's advancement did not differ radically from the regions which surrounded it.The essence of the study is a profile of the population in the Mid-Western Pennsylvania counties of Armstrong, Butler, Clarion, Lawrence, Mercer, and Venango based upon personal data recorded in the manuscripts of the census returns of 1860. To accomplish this 180,486 individuals living in the region were codified for computer use in the following five categories: county of residence, age group, sex, property holdings, and state or foreign nation of their birth. While compendiums published by the United States Bureau of the Census contain totals of each recorded category, this study by utilizing computer techniques shows the interrelationships between each of the categories. From tables contained in chapter six of the study it is thus possible to determine exactly how many persons of a precise sex, age group, level of property holding, and state or foreign nation of birth were residing in the region in 1860. The appendix contains the same data for each individual county of the region.Among the more general conclusions that can be drawn from the population data is the overwhelming predominance of the age group under twenty years old, and the slightly higher incidence of males in the population especially among those over the age of fifty. It is also evident that the population of the region was more static and insular by 1860 than the national norms. Among those whose nativities were from other states it is clear that migrants tended to move from the states immediately adjacent to the borders of Pennsylvania regardless of the direction. There is also evidence of a slight reverse migration of persons from states farther west returning to Pennsylvania. The ethnic composition of the population shows consistency from the earliest settlers through 1860. Scots-Irish and Germans in that order dominated the earliest settlement. By 1860 they continued to prevail, but the Scots-Irish had dropped slightly behind the Germans in numbers.The analysis of property holding follows predictable lines in that real property was far more prevalent than personal property, it was controlled chiefly by males, and concentrated among the older age groups. No discernable trend was apparent between the level of property holding and the state or foreign nation of birth. It appears from the study that economic opportunity must have been fairly equal in the region, or at least not based upon one's ethnic origins.The study concludes that the natural and historic forces affecting the region have molded it into a cultural transition zone which harbors a variety of characteristics of the regions which surround it, but where none of the criteria used to classify those regions are dominant. What ever the classification indices selected, topography, economy, culture, or ethnography, Mid-Western Pennsylvania's chief distinctiveness is in its diversity.

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The purpose of this paper is to analyze changes in selected social indicators through life and relate these changes to the population dynamics of SMSAs. The research examined the relationship between changes in levels of living in the 1970s and net migration rates. United States Census data on Standard Metropolitan Statistical Areas (SMSAs) were used in the analysis. The findings indicated that net migration rates were statistically related to variations in levels of living for SMSAs along with other demographic variables. Levels of living increased more in smaller SMSAs that had positive net migration rates and lower levels of living in 1970. / Master of Urban Affairs

Thesis. 1976. B.S.--Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning. / Microfiche copy available in Archives and Rotch. / Bibliography: leaf 95. / B.S.

The purpose of this study was to describe the migration of a selected group of church members from their Appalachian counties of origin to Muncie, Indiana, with specific attention being given to religious beliefs, causes for migration, urban residential patterns, the degree of occupational mobility, and the establishment of migrant churches. The sample studied consisted of members of four migrant churches that had been founded between 1936 and 1959. The migrants' Appalachian origins were obtained from the records of transfers of membership from their original church to the one in Muncie. Tabulation of these transfers revealed that 90.1 percent of them came from four counties: McCreary and Wayne in Kentucky, and Fentress and Scott in Tennessee.Data on living conditions in these Appalachian counties were derived from census material, with detailed attention being given to population, birth rates, economy, employment, education, and housing. The impact these factors had on migration was evaluated. Information as to the migrants' residential patterns and occupational mobility was drawn from the censuses and Muncie city directories. The rates of residential and occupational mobility were determined by examining data at five-year intervals beginning with 1940.The role played by religion in the area of the migrants' origin also was explored. Extensive treatment was given to the establishment of migrant churches and their role in the migration process. Church records and interviews were used to describe the founding of churches as well as how they compared with their counterparts in Appalachia.One of the findings of this study is that a decline in coal mining and subsistence farming was not the chief factor accounting for migration from this four-county region. In the 1940s the decline in these two categories of employment only accounted for 18 percent of the out-migration. But in the following decade, they did account for 58 percent of the exodus. Census data before 1950 indicated that more jobs in other categories had lessened the impact of mining and agriculture on migration. However, after 1950 employment in other categories also declined, making migration even more pronounced.The chief factor responsible for migration from this area was the high rate of natural increase. Birth rates were twice as high as the national average and half of these counties' inhabitants were under twenty years old. Population pressure existed because the economy could not absorb the annual increase. Approximately 60 percent of the out-migration resulted from this high rate of natural increase.An investigation of residential patterns did not reveal the clustering of migrants within city blocks. Instead, concentrations of migrants were found within larger housing districts. They tended to move into the central part of the city as well as four other districts with substandard housing. When those areas filled up, they moved over into the southeast side. Significant concentrations were also found in the Black areas.Study of the migrants' occupational patterns revealed only marginal mobility. All of them started as unskilled or semi-skilled laborers, with only 8.4 percent improving their position over the thirty-five year period studied. The latter were upgraded as industrial supervisors or skilled laborers. However, none of the migrants became white-collar employees or managed to move into new or elaborate housing. Overall, these people have preferred the step-by-step marginal advancements that are consistent with their culture.The most significant fact about these migrant churches is that they were established and are maintained by extended family groups which originated and still have deep roots in Appalachia. Urbanization was found to have had some impact in the sense that they eventually had adopted more church programs, more worship services, and full-time ministers like other urban churches. However, in their basic religious practices and beliefs, and in the way they depend upon bonds of kinship these churches still reflect many of the basic characteristics of those back in Appalachia.