- Title
- Effects of commuting status upon community involvement of professionals in rural North West Victoria
- Creator
- Devers, Deanna
- Date
- 2006
- Type
- Text; Thesis; PhD
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/58705
- Identifier
- vital:1011
- Abstract
- Because mobility is associated with rural social decline, this two-phase cross sectional study investigates whether social patterns in small, rural Australian towns are affected by commuting. Quantitative data, which was gathered via a mail-out questionnaire (response = 54 per cent) that was issued to 1,040 occupationally diverse professionals who worked in fourteen towns throughout north-western Victoria, was analysed to determine whether commuting and non-commuting professionals differed significantly in their community involvement. To explain why certain relationships emerged from survey analysis, face-toface interviews were subsequently undertaken with 24 questionnaire respondents. The key finding of this study is that there is a significant relationship between commuting status and the retention of rural professionals. A significantly greater proportion of noncommuters than commuters remain working in the one location for longer than five years. This finding has important implications for the sustainability of rural areas.; Doctor of Philosophy
- Publisher
- University of Ballarat
- Rights
- Coyright Deanna Devers
- Rights
- Open Access
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Professionals; North West Victoria; Commuting; Australia; Australian Digital Thesis
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