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Peer reviewedReif, Linda Lobao – Rural Sociology, 1987
A study of effects of differentiated farm structures and industry structures on socioeconomic conditions in 3,037 counties for 1970 and 1980 indicated that employment in core industry and a pattern of family farming contribute to more favorable socioeconomic conditions. Both peripheral and state employment lowered socioeconomic conditions relative…
Descriptors: Community Characteristics, Community Resources, Economic Factors, Employment Patterns
Salant, Priscilla; Saupe, William – Rural Development Perspectives, 1986
Survey information from 1,616 farm families in Wisconsin, Mississippi, and Tennessee was used to construct a viability ratio measuring a family's ability to meet its obligations from total income. Coupled with other farm characteristics, the ratio allows policymakers to see why some farms are viable and others are not. (JHZ)
Descriptors: Comparative Analysis, Differences, Economic Factors, Employment Patterns
Download full textWest, Patrick C.; And Others – 1985
Consequences of population turnaround for rural economic development are examined in a 9-county region of Northern Lower Michigan. Data from census reports and 374 usable responses to a questionnaire mailed to a random sample of property owners drawn from 1982 county tax assessment rolls were used to test competing hypotheses about rural…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Economic Factors, Economic Research, Employment Patterns
Deavers, Kenneth L. – 1987
Knowledge of major economic forces shaping the future of rural America provides insights about the likely importance and effectiveness of various broad program alternatives as components of a rural development policy. The rural economic base was transformed during the 1960s and 1970s from a primary dependence on natural resource activities,…
Descriptors: Change, Economic Development, Economic Factors, Employment Patterns
Beaulieu, Lionel J. – 1987
Since the advent of the 1980s, the economic viability of many farm operations has been severely jeopardized. Although attention has been directed primarily to the Midwest, in many respects farm stress has been greater in the South than in any other region. What is clear, however, is that the crisis is not strictly an agricultural one. Rather, a…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Economic Factors, Extension Education, Federal State Relationship
Tigges, Leann M.; Green, Gary P. – 1985
A study of 149 nonmetropolitan Southern counties used data for 1973 and 1983 to examine the effects of rural industrialization in the region. Variables studied were population size, number of manufacturers, rate of family poverty, and percent of high school graduates. A comparison of white (75% or more whites in the population) and nonwhite (more…
Descriptors: Blacks, Economic Change, Economic Factors, Educational Attainment
