Rural Conditions and Trends: Socioeconomic Conditions Issue, Vol. 11, No. 2
Douglas E. Bowers, Peggy Cook, and Robert Gibbs, editors
Rural Conditions and Trends No. (RCAT-112)
January 2001
About this magazine
This issue of Rural Conditions and Trends provides an assessment of the current conditions and trends in socioeconomic well-being for rural people and places during the late 1990's. The core articles update analyses reported annually by focusing on such topics as population, migration, employment, unemployment, poverty, earnings, and transfer payments. Articles that were new to last year’s issue on housing and household food security and hunger are featured again this year. Also returning to the issue is an article based on data from ERS’s Rural Manufacturing Survey that compares rural and urban wage differentials and examines how the business practices of manufacturing firms shape wage levels.
ERS will discontinue publication of Rural Conditions and Trends (RCaT) with this issue; however, much of the information now in RCaT will be published through other ERS outlets. These include Rural America, which will incorporate some of the information and analyses formerly published in RCaT, and the ERS website . Both will provide regular updates of social and economic conditions, timely research, and data on a wide variety of related issues.
In this report ...
Articles are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.
- Frontmatter (About RCaT, Contents), 13 kb
Overview
- Favorable Rural Socioeconomic Conditions Persist, but Not in All Areas, 529 kb
Low-Wage, Low-Skill Employment
- Rural Low-Wage Employment Rises Among Men, 53 kb
- Low-Wage Counties Face Locational Disadvantages, 1,035 kb
Population and Employment
- Nonmetro Population Growth Rate Recedes in a Time of National Prosperity, 560 kb
- Nonmetro Migration Drops in the West and Among College Graduates, 39 kb
- Nonmetro Employment and Unemployment Trends Remain Favorable, 626 kb
- Almost Half of Hired Farmworkers 25 Years and Older Earn Poverty-Level Wages, 23 kb
Earnings
- Rural Nonfarm Earnings Increase in 1997, but Lag Urban Earnings Growth, 25 kb
- Skills Training and Manufacturing Innovations Are Key to Raising Rural Workers' Wages, 30 kb
Poverty and Income
- Rural Poverty Rate Declines, While Family Income Grows, 30 kb
- Food Stamp and Family Assistance Benefits Sharply Decline in the Post-Welfare-Reform Era, 469 kb
Rural Well-Being
- Unique Housing Challenges Face Rural America and Its Low-Income Workers, , 23kb
- Prevalence of Hunger Declines in Rural Households, 31 kb
Appendix
- Data Sources and Definitions, 31 kb
- Tables, 65 kb
- Download entire issue, 2,318 kb.
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Updated date: January 2001
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