THE MEASUREMENT OF COMMUNITY SATISFACTION AND THE DECISION TO MIGRATE.

This article reports an attempt to test the basic assumption that the desire to migrate is inversely related to the degree of satisfaction with the home community, and some related factors on a sample of potential migrants, namely, high school seniors in a rural area of Michigan. It presents a study of the migration attitudes of farm youth from rural areas with relatively high outmigration. It examines some of the social-psychological aspects of migration, which have received relatively less attention than demographic factors. More specifically, this study, examines the residential, occupational, and educational plans of a sample of high school seniors from four rural counties of central Michigan. The focus of this article is the anticipated migration behavior of rural high school seniors about to graduate. In the spring of 1958 a self-administered questionnaire, designed to elicit information on community satisfaction, occupational, residential, and educational aspirations was submitted to the 545 respondents in this study.