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Tenure and Satisfaction as Indicators of Attachment: A Note

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  10 May 2017

A. E. Luloff ,
Louis E. Swanson Jr.  and
Rex H. Warland
A. E. Luloff
Affiliation:
Institute of Natural and Environmental Resources, University of New Hampshire
Louis E. Swanson Jr.
Affiliation:
Department of Sociology, University of Kentucky
Rex H. Warland
Affiliation:
Department of Agricultural Economics and Rural Sociology, The Pennsylvania State University
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Abstract

The role of community attachments in decision-making models of migration is evaluated. Findings of a block model analysis (with multiple partials) are reported with data from a longitudinal study. Findings indicate that attachments to community only partially explain willingness to move.

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Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council , Volume 11 , Issue 2 , Fall 1982 , pp. 53 - 60
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Copyright © Northeastern Agricultural and Resource Economics Association 

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Footnotes

The data upon which this publication is based were collected pursuant to Contract No. NIH-NICHD-72-2743 with the National Institutes of Child Health and Human Development. This research was partially funded by the Pennsylvania State University Program of the 1972 Rural Development Act. Published with the approval of the Director of the New Hampshire Agricultural Experiment Station as Scientific Contribution No. 1083. We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Ken Wilkinson and Dan Moore and many other reviewers. An earlier version of the paper was presented at the 1980 Rural Sociological Society meetings.

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