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Migrants and their motives : a study of migration from New Zealand
- Title
- Migrants and their motives : a study of migration from New Zealand / Rosemary Barrington and Judith Davey.
- Author
- Barrington, Rosemary Eleanor, 1947-
- Publication
- Wellington, N.Z. : New Zealand Planning Council, 1980.
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- Description
- 103 pages : illustrations; 30 cm.
- Summary
- "A large net outflow of people from New Zealand is something which, in the view of the Planning Council, "merits wide consideration and public debate" ... We discovered that little was known about emigrants, their motives for leaving and whether or not they intended to return ... Accordingly, we accepted a recommendation that we should try to fill out the official statistics with a small survey. Two social researchers ... were commissioned to survey a sample of New Zealand residents leaving the country for a year or more. The results of this survey, carried out over one week in October 1979 at New Zealand's thriee international airports, are published in this report ... There are ... some issues which the survey results highlight. One of these is the strong trans-Tasman movement in the total -- two thirds of all those surveyed were travelling to Australia -- and its effect ..."--Foreword.
- Series Statement
- Planning paper / New Zealand Planning Council, 0111-0470 ; no. 8
- Uniform Title
- Planning paper (New Zealand Planning Council) ; no. 8.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- Important findings -- Introduction -- Departing migrants: who were they? -- Migrants: educational and work qualifications -- Destination -- Why leave?: reasons for leaving -- Returning -- Immigrants emigrating -- Housing -- Summary.
- ISBN
- 0908601123
- 9780908601127
- LCCN
- 81190319
- OCLC
- ocm08765022
- 8765022
- SCSB-31232
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library