Migration affects success, Penn State study shows
UNIVERSITY PARK ,happiness or more satisfaction study were Donald M. Crider and
Financial success and prestige in with their ways, of life or their Robert C. Bealer, both in rural
adulthood are related to early employment than those who stayed sociology,
migration and' education, ao within 50 miles of their high school The findings contradict the
cording to a Penn State study of homes.” stated Fern K. Willits, widely-held American assumption
some 2,000 former students in rural rural sociologist in the College of that financial success is essential
high schools of Pennsylvania. The Agriculture at Penn State. for personal satisfaction. In most
study was made 22 years after She said the study was begun in cases, migrants and nonmigrants
graduation. 194? when the students were showed similar levels of con-
Por both males and females, sophomores in rural high schools, tentment.
success was found directly related Records were kept on 2,806 After 22 years, most of the
to migration. In addition, as students from 47 of the Com- graduates were not far from
education increased, the levels of monwealth’s 67 counties. In 1971, their original homes. More than
family income and occupational Penn Staters were able to locate three-fourths of the sample were
status also rose. 2,081 graduates in 40 states and living in Pennsylvania. An ad
“ Despite financial success, several foreign countries. - ditional 13 percent lived in ad
migrants did not report greater Associated with Willits on the jacent states. By 1971, 72 percent
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listed an address within SO miles of
their 1947 residence, and were
classified as nonmigrants.
For the men, migration was
related to occupational aspiration,
1947 residence, high school grade
point average, and adjustment.
For the women, only grade-point
average was associated strongly
with migrant stat is. Those with
high grade-point averages were
more than twice as likely to move
as those with low averages.
Occupational prestige was
highest for both men and women
migrants. This was directly
related to levels of education.
People who went on to schooling
beyond high school were the ones
most likely to migrate.
Nonetheless, education was not
associated significantly with
satisfaction or happiness.
More than 30 percent of the
migrants listed their 1971 ad
dresses as cities with 50,000
inhabitants or more. However,
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over 30 percent of the migrants,
both men and women, reported
addresses in towns of less than
10,000 persons. About half of these
small-town residents were in
communities of less than 2,500
inhabitants.
When asked to characterize their
locales, less than 45 percent of the
migrants saw themselves as living
in “urban” areas, no matter how
the U.S. Census classified the
location.
“It would not be accurate tb
characterize nopmigrants as
exclusively small-town and open
country dwellers," Willits said.
“About one in every seven non
migrants described his or her
place of residence as urban."
A full report of the study has
been published as Bulletin 831 of
the Agricultural Experiment
Station at Penn State. The title is,
“Twenty-Four Years Later:
Migration and Success for a Panel
of Rural Pennsylvanians."
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