Net Migration as a Factor Affecting Metropolitan Growth in Utah: 1950 to 1970
Net Migration as a Factor Affecting Metropolitan Growth in Utah: 1950 to 1970 by Kooros M. Mahmoudi, Doctor of Philosophy Utah State University, 1973 Major Professor: Dr. Yun Kim Department: Sociology The objectives of this study were to measure net inor out-migration to or from the Standard Metropolitan Areas of Utah between 1950-60 and 1960-70, and to study selected socio-economic factors relating to migration and the growth of SMSA 's. Specifically, the factors of migration and natural population increase were central in an analysis of population redistribution. Selected demographic characteristics of the migrants such as sex and age were also studied to establish their impact upon the SMSA population structure. The relationship between population change in the SMSA ' s and economic factors of labor force supply and employment were also reviewed. Net intercensal migration for the SMSA 's of Ogden, Provo-Orem, and Salt Lake City were derived through indirect methods of estimating net migration: L. The Census Survival Ratio Method and the Life Table Survival Ratio Method. An analysis of the findings indicated that most migrants were in the younger age groups of 20-34 years and females outnumbered the males in the migrating population. These trends held for all three SMSA 's throughout the 1950-60 and
A Historical Study of the Demographic Aspects of Urbanization in Utah, 1900-1960
A Historical Study of the Demographic Aspects of Urbanization in Utah, 1900-1960 by Kooros M. Mahmoud!, Master of Science Utah State University, 1969 Major Professor: Dr . Yun Kim Department: Sociology In a historical frame of reference, this is a study of rural-urban migration to demonstrate the process of urbanizat ion in Utah between 1900 and 1960. This study estimates the amount of internal migration for the state of Utah. Se l ected demographic variables such as size, age, and sex of the migrating population are studied. Changes in the population composition of t he sending and receiving areas as a complement of ruralurban migration constitute the crux of this study. The indirect methods of estimating the net intercensal migration, census survival and life table survival ratio me t hods, are used in t abu l ations. Li mitat ions wer e imposed, as fo r availability of the data , in usage of any direct methods of migration measurement. The survival ratio me t hods used, however, are the most reliable in this
Population Problems
IN its widest meaning, population is one of those complex encyclopaedic subjects which touch at some point or other, directly or indirectly, practically every branch of human knowledge. This is more emphatically the case to-day, for problems of population are no longer limited to merely quantitative considerations, but involve so many issues of a qualitative kind, and concern themselves so much with the ‘quantum of happiness’, differential survival, eugenics, standards of living, optimum density, and above all with the many complexities of labour and employment, that an adequate treatment of the subject demands the loyal and concentrated efforts of workers in many fields of study. We have travelled far from the Malthusian balancing of two mighty and opposite forces-man's power of increase on one hand and the limiting effects of war, starvation, etc., on the other-and we have opened up correspondingly wider vistas of supreme interest. Yet Malthus is by no means entirely thrown overboard.