Geographic mobility of labor, 1962-1963

This study focused on the mobility within the labor force. It differs in essential character both from studies of local labor markets and from studies of particular categories of workers in that information about attitudes, motives, and the economic circumstances of the family was obtained in addition to migration history and demographic characteristics. The information gathered includes a broad range of data about the causes of mobility and the obstacles to mobility, the process of mobility, and the consequences of mobility. The study was based on sample surveys of the adult population of the United States living in private households. There are three waves of interviews with cross-sections of the population of the nation. When a family was selected for interview, the head of the family or the wife of the head was designated as the respondent on a random basis. Interviews with the cross-section sample are identified so that they can be analyzed separately from those of people who were reinterviewed.