Duration-of-Residence Analysis of Internal Migration in the United States

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Cross tabulations of regular census data by state of birth and state of residence make it possible to differentiate population on the basis of whether they have moved from one state to another. Since 1940, each census has included a question on specific place of residence one or five years previous to the census. Here again, the classifications yield information as to whether a given type of move occurred during the period considered. Occasionally, private studies or sources have yielded limited data on a number of moves and residence history since marriage. Present data from the National Lung Cancer Mortality Study and show that 26% of all individuals questioned had lived in the same place all their life but that only 1.8% have lived in the same house. These figures fell to 19.2 and 2.2% respectively in the age group of 65+. In the above 18 age group, only 5.3% had lived in their present homes less than a year while this figure fell to 2.5% in the more mobile 65+ people. Geographically, people from the west tend to be more mobile than people from other places in the United States, whether one measures this by duration of residence in the current place or by the percentage of people with a duration of more than a year in the present residence. Southern people are least mobile, while individuals from other geographic regions show an intermediate degree of mobility. Non-whites tend to move more than whites. Rural people have the same degree of mobility in the white group but show much less interest in moving as compared with the urban group in the non-white.

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