Fertility Rates And Migration Of Kentucky Population 1920 To 1940

Author : E.W. Hofstee
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401179999
Total Pages : 37 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Some Remarks on Selective Migration written by E.W. Hofstee and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Professor Hofstee has collected together, in compact and highly readable form, some of the most important conclusions so far reached in the study of selective aspects of internal and external migration. Of still greater value, however, than this sum mary of findings, and more stimulating to those of us who are directly concerned with demographic research, are Professor Hofstee's comments on the undocumented hypotheses with which the literature of migration abounds, and his suggestions concern ing the kinds of questions to which objective answers are needed if effective progress is to be made in this branch of social studies. The study of migration has had a curiously unsatisfactory history. Statistics of migration developed as by-products of governmental policy and, even so, with scant regard to those ques tions on which light needed to be thrown if policy was to have a sound basis. And as, for long periods, internal movement was not considered a fit subject for policy, the statistics in that field tended to be even less useful. In many countries, net balances of movement by major administrative areas were the only indicators that could be obtained. No less important, however, as an expla nation of the unsatisfactory state of the subject is the fact that so much of non-governmental research has been piece-meal and un-coordinated - often of considerable interest in itself but, as is the case with sociology in general, not building up into a systematic structure.