<p> This study investigates variables associated with residential mobility and migration at the ecological level. The aim of the study is to test the application of factor analysis to a more specific subject than the description of the whole urban structure. </p> <p> Theoretical formulations about urban growth, urban ecology and mobility are examined, together with empirical research in these fields, to determine variables considered to be associated with changes in residence. The indicators of variables chosen for analysis are from census data and city reports, and each census tract of the chosen urban area is assigned a value for each indicator. The area selected for the study is the Hamilton Metropolitan Area, Ontario. </p> <p> The results of the analysis reveal that most of the variation in the variables is accounted for by two factors: dwelling type and household composition, and economic status. These are the same factors which have been identified in factorial ecologies of geaeral urban structure. </p> The remaining factors are more associated with mobility, and reveal that different origins of movers and migrants are associated with different characteristics and geographical distributions. The hypotheses concerning the relationships with age, population growth and distance from the city centre are supported by the analysis, and the size and direction of movement is generally as expected. However, the hypothesis of increasing economic status with increasing distance migrated is not confirmed: migrants from abroad and different provinces tend to migrate to areas or lower economic status than migrants from Ontario or from the Hamilton metropolitan fringe. </p> <p> This study recognises the limitations of a factorial ecology of residential mobility. Particular care should be exercised in the selection of variables and measures of these variables. Factorial ecology is a descriptive tool, and further analysis of apparent association between variables should be undertaken to determine their statistical significance. </p> <p> The study emphasises the contribution of factorial ecology to the description of areal associations of more specific subjects such as residential mobility, and possibly for other social phenomena. As such, it provides a means for parsimonious description of aspects of urban social geography. </p> / Thesis / Master of Arts (MA)

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Educational attainment in the U.S. continues to be marred by racial and socioeconomic (SES) disparities. Despite decades of research on the predictors of attainment and the decreases in dropout rates, minority-race and low-income youth continue to dropout at higher rates than their White and wealthy peers. Therefore, the question remains, why do many students persist while some drop out? To better understand attainment, an analysis of a nationally representative sample within which attainment is evaluated as part of a process of grade advancement and the nuanced nature that the timing, frequency, and severity of previous life events have on a child’s educational path are addressed is needed. The study presented here is a first step to evaluate the effects of residential mobility and school exclusion history on the attainment of a cohort of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent Health (Add Health). First, patterns of school exclusion, residential mobility, and dropout over the study period were outlined. Next, the relationships between predictors of dropout and dropout examined. Finally, the effects of the frequency and timing of residential mobility, school exclusion, and other predictors on attainment were explored using discrete time survival analysis. Findings indicate the potential utility of these methods in future research to better understand the process of dropout so more informed interventions can be designed to serve students. / Urban Education

Tsang Po ling, Flora. / Bibliography: leaves xxv-xxxiv / Thesis (M.Ph.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1986

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.

Tang, Kwai Ying, Shirley. / Thesis (M.Phil.)--Chinese University of Hong Kong, 1992. / Includes bibliographical references (leaves vii-xiii). / ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --- p.ii / ABSTRACT --- p.iii / LIST OF TABLES --- p.vi / LIST OF FIGURES --- p.viii / LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS --- p.x / GLOSSARY --- p.xi / Chapter 1. --- INTRODUCTION --- p.1 / Objective and Significance of the Study --- p.7 / Literature Review --- p.8 / Research Methodology --- p.14 / Organization of the Study --- p.16 / Chapter 2. --- THE REDEVELOPMENT OF PUBLIC HOUSING IN HONG KONG --- p.18 / The Need for Public Housing Redevelopment --- p.18 / The Role of Public Housing Redevelopment --- p.24 / Mark I/II Type Resettlement Estates Redevelopment Programme (RRP) --- p.32 / Extended Redevelopment Programme (ERP) --- p.45 / Comprehensive Redevelopment Programme (CRP) --- p.51 / Chapter 3. --- THE SPATIAL IMPACT OF PHRP -- A CASE STUDY OF TSUEN WAN --- p.62 / Geographical Background of Tsuen Wan --- p.62 / Resource Allocation in the Housing System --- p.71 / Land Resources --- p.72 / Housing Units Allocation --- p.78 / Financial Resources --- p.94 / Human Resources --- p.101 / Chapter 4. --- THE SPATIAL OUTCOMES OF PHRP IN TSUEN WAN --- p.106 / Change in Occupancy Pattern --- p.106 / Land Use Change --- p.113 / Residential Mobility --- p.126 / Chapter 5. --- SUMMARY AND CONCLUSION --- p.139 / Summary of Major Findings --- p.139 / Challenge of PHRP in the Future --- p.142 / Limitations of Present Study and Direction of Future Studies --- p.154 / APPENDICES --- p.i / APPENDIX A : LIST OF INTERVIEWS CONDUCTED --- p.i / APPENDIX B : A REPROVISIONING PROFILE OF PHRP IN TSUEN WAN --- p.ii / BIBLIOGRAPHY --- p.vii