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Social, Psychological, Economic Factors, And The Migration Intentions Of Senior High School Students In Utah, Elias Toumeh Nijim

All Graduate Theses and Dissertations, Spring 1920 to Summer 2023

This study deals with a comparison between rural, urban, and metropolitan students as to their migration intentions and factors associated with their migration intentions. The study is based on the initial stage of a larger longitudinal panel study of 2,500 high school seniors in public high schools in the state of Utah in 1975. Survey research was the principal method of investigation. Stratified random sample was used for choosing the students and administered questionnaire was used to collect the information. Proportions and crosstabulations were the statistical techniques used in the analysis with chi square and gamma as the statistics for …