Non-metropolitan Locations Research Articles

Geographical Mobility and Family Caregiving in Nonmetropolitan America: Three-Decade Evidence from the U. S. Census

This is an article about older migrants. The implications of geographic mobility for family caretaking are explored in the context of moves between metropolitan and nonmetropolitan locations. The 1960, 1970, and 1980 census microdata files were used to profile the characteristics of migrants who were age 60 + in the census years and who had recently moved within and between metropolitan and nonmetropolitan settings in the United States. A three-decade pattern of differences between metro-to-nonmetro and nonmetro-to-metro migrants is demonstrated and interpreted within the framework of a developmental theory of migration espoused by Litwak and Longino (1987). Implications of the findings for practitioners are discussed.

Aged metropolitan-nonmetropolitan migration streams over three census decades.

One type of population redistribution is discussed in this paper. It is the migration of older people between metropolitan and nonmetropolitan locations as it has occurred over three decades. Both net migration and stream migration studies documented the metropolitan-to-nonmetropolitan turnaround between 1960 and 1970, but no three-decade trends have been established and thus the trend remains in doubt. The data used in this analysis came from the census microdata files, using the 1-in-100 samples in 1960 and 1970 and the 1-in-40 sample in 1980. Only the records of persons age 60 and over were examined. This analysis documents the continuation of the turnaround in 1980 among older migrants and pictures them as forerunners of larger migration trends. It also discusses the dynamics of the trend and some of the processes that may have brought it about and maintain it.

Changing Aged Nonmetropolitan Migration Patterns, 1955 to 1960 and 1965 to 1970

One type of population redistribution is discussed in this paper. It is the migration of older people between metropolitan and nonmetropolitan locations as it has occurred over two decades. Net migration studies have documented the metropolitan-to-nonmetropolitan turnaround but have not been able to connect the origin with the destination of the individual migrants. Neither have they been able to examine the differences between interstate and intrastate migrants in this pattern. The dynamics of the process, therefore, has been left unexplored. The data used in this analysis came from the two most recent, available, 1-in-100 public use samples, one from the 1960 census and the other from the 1970 census. Only the records of persons aged 60 years and over in these samples were examined. The turnaround was again documented. It became clear, however, that interstate migration over the two decades came to dominate the pattern. What appeared from the marginals to be a turnaround among intrastate migrants resulted from decreased migration into metropolitan areas from nonmetropolitan locations. The metropolitan outflow did not change.

A Report on the First Periodic Survey of Physicians

A simple random sample of 3,544 physicians in private practice was surveyed regarding experience, specialty, training, and volume of visits. The responses from 2,833 were tabulated for the United States and regions of the country, for specialty and type of practice groupings, and metropolitan and nonmetropolitan locations of practice.