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SOCIETY FOR SOCIAL MEDICINE
Publication year - 1961
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1961.tb70238.x
Subject(s) - citation , computer science , psychology , library science
disorder. If after three letters no reply had been received a personal call was made; 329 (27 4%) were found to have left their original address, giving a corrected estimate for population mobility of 25-8% over 19 months. An examination of the characteristics of migrants showed a significant excess in the age group 15-35 and in social classes I and ff. All but 135 were traced, and the study finally achieved a response rate of 88-2 %.