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A PAPER by Dr. H. M. C. Luykx, “Family Studies in the Eastern Health District : IV. Permanence of Residence with Respect to Various Family Characteristics”, reprinted from Human Biology, is one of several studies in a district of the city of Baltimore. Its findings are summed up in a table showing the family characteristics associated with the highest and lowest proportions of families remaining in the district between the triennial censuses of 1933, 1936 and 1939. The highest proportion of permanence was found among whites, owning their houses or paying the highest rent, with children and several wage-earners in family, where the family head was a skilled worker or foreman, middle-aged, foreign born, and not highly educated. With the present concern over labour mobility between industries, this study has considerable ‘social significance’. Education, and renting rather than owning houses, seem indicated as favourable factors that social policy can control.
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Permanence of Residence as a Social Factor. Nature 162, 647 (1948). https://doi.org/10.1038/162647a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/162647a0