Steve H Murdock
Biographic Data
| ID | 3811090 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Steve H Murdock |
| GIVEN NAMES | Steve H |
| FAMILY NAME | Murdock |
| SIGNATURE | MURDOCK S H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Texas A&M University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 30 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 76 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 30 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
The Implications of Change in Population Size, Distribution, and Composition on the Number of Overweight and Obese Adults and the Direct and Indirect Cost Associated with Overweight and Obese Adults i…
Rural Demographics Racial/Ethnic Diversification in Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Population Change in the United States: Implications for Health Care Provision in Rural America
The diversification of the rural population of the United States provides substantial challenges to the current and to future health care systems in rural areas. Because of a variety of historical, discriminatory, and other factors, minority populations have had lower levels of access to health care in rural as well as urban areas and higher rates of both mortality and morbidity than nonminority populations. Although minority health issues have o…
Economic and fiscal impacts of waste and non-waste development in rural United States
This paper investigates the differences in the economic and fiscal impacts between communities, and their respective counties, which had experienced economic development from the siting and operation of waste processing and disposal facilities, versus those that had experienced economic development from other types of retail, wholesale distribution, or manufacturing businesses. These communities and their respective counties are compared and cont…
Waste facility experience and perceptions of waste-related health and safety risks
Based on ecological theory, we hypothesize that positive experience with waste facility siting and storage will reduce the perceived health and safety risks associated with waste sites. Evidence is presented from data collected in 15 communities in the states of Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and Colorado. Seven of these communities are hosting or were potential sites for hazardous waste facilities, four were the sites of other types of rural i…
The importance of demographic analyses in state- and local-level policy evaluations: A case study analysis of property taxes in Texas, USA
Racial Attraction or Racial Avoidance in American Suburbs
The principle of homophily is central to several social-science theories. When applied to the study of population change in geographic areas, these theories predict racial homogeneity in residential settlement patterns. The concentration of one group in an area is expected to attract same-group members while deterring others. We examine this prediction using data on 1980–90 population change for four ethnic groups in 1,672 U.S. suburban cities. T…
Support for Waste Facility Siting: Differences between Community Leaders and Residents
Decisions regarding hazardous waste facility siting are now open to extensive public debate. Efforts on the part of public officials and private companies to site waste management facilities have been thwarted by public opposition. Using survey data from leaders and residents in communities which are hosting or siting facilities, this study examines their sociodemographic characteristics, knowledge, levels of trust, perceptions of risk, perceptio…
Socioeconomic development, status of women, family planning, and fertility in Bangladesh: A district level analysis
In this paper we examine the effects of socioeconomic development, the status of women, and family planning on fertility and the extent to which these effects vary among the nineteen districts of Bangladesh. The 1983 and 1991 Bangladesh Contraceptive Prevalence Survey data are used to examine the effects of these factors on differences in contraceptive use among currently married women aged 15-49. The proportion of currently married women aged 15…
The implications of demographic change for recreational fisheries management in the United States
Projected decreased rates of population growth, increased immigration, an aging population, and increased numbers and proportions of minority residents will impact the demand for recreational fishing and fisheries management in the United States. Recent age and race/ ethnicity specific population projections and data on participation in, and expenditures for, fishing were used to examine the impacts of future demographic trends on angler numbers,…
An American Challenged: Population Change and the Future of the United States
An America Challenged: Population Change and the Future of the United States
The implications of future population change in America - the rationale and scope for an assessment. Part 1 The demographic context of change in America: America's demographic past - setting the framework for the future America's future population - analyzing alternative demographic futures. Part 2 The implications of population - change for America's future: the labour force - implications for America's competitiveness population change, househo…
The effect of undercount on the accuracy of small-area population estimates: Implications for the use of administrative data for improving population enumeration
An America Challenged: Population Change and the Future of the United States
Nonmetropolitan Residential Segregation Revisited
Nonmetropolitan (nonmetro) residential segregation in 1990 and change in the preceding decade have received insufficient attention. A set of empirical hypotheses are derived and assessed using nonmetro and metropolitan (metro) counties in Texas. Places in nonmetro counties were more segregated than places in metro counties in 1990 as in 1980. Substantial declines in segregation occurred in both nonmetro and metro places but were largest in growin…
Determinants of 1980 to 1990 Net Migration in Texas Counties: The Role of Sustenance Specialization and Dominance in International Ecosystems
Patterns of 1980-1990 migration differ markedly from those of the 1970s but they have received little conceptual or empirical analysis because of limited data and because their diversity has resisted theoretical generalization. An expanded human ecological perspective incorporating international dimensions is hypothesized to explain differentials in migration during the 1980s. Counties with key functions which operate in international ecosystems …
Applied Demography: An Introduction to Basic Concepts, Methods, and Data
Part 1 Introduction: the characteristics of applied demography. Part 2 Basic concepts of applied demography: the basic demographic variables secondary demographic and related socio-economic variables. Part 3 The sources of demographic data for applied analysis: sources of data on basic demographic variables sources of data on secondary demographic and related variables. Part 4 Methods for applied demographic analysis: general demographic measures…
The Sociology of U.S. Agriculture: An Ecological Perspective
The socioeconomic dimensions of global climate change: Searching for a theoretical and empirical base
The Implications of Change in Population Size and Composition on Future Participation in Outdoor Recreational Activities
The future U.S. population will grow slowly, age significantly, and have larger minority components. These factors' effects on recreational behavior have received extensive attention, but analyses of the future number of participants have inadequately examined the simultaneous effects of demographic variables.The results from a national cohort-component population projection employing age, race/ethnicity, and activity-specific rates of cohort par…
Ethnic Enclosure or Ethnic Competition: Ethnic Identification Among Hispanics in Texas
Recent theoretical debates have focused on the utility of two alternative perspectives on ethnic identification. However, empirical support for either is neither consistent nor conclusive and previous analyses seldom conceptually or empirically examine the aggregate macrostructural determinants of ethnic identification. This study reevaluates the relative merits of the ethnic enclosure and ethnic competition perspectives among Texan Hispanics usi…
International Dimensions of Post-1980 Internal Migration in the United States: The Role of Sustenance Specialization and Dominance
Post-1980 internal migration patterns were unanticipated, and prevailing explanations of them fail to account for the effects of new international relationships. A human ecological theory is developed which suggests an explanation based on the sphere of sustenance activities in ecosystems and relative dominance in these activities. Larger net migration was expected for counties specialized in activities that operate in international ecosystems in…
Modeling demographic change and characteristics in the analysis of future demand for leisure services
Populations are likely to grow slowly, age significantly, and show increased proportions of minorities in the coming decades. Such factors have received extensive attention as determinants of leisure behavior, but models for projecting future demand for leisure services have often failed to incorporate adequately the simultaneous interactive effects of age, race/ethnicity, and population growth. A cohort‐component population projection model empl…
Residential Segregation and Ethnic Identification among Hispanics in Texas
The hypothesis that racial or ethnic minority groups that are residentially segregated from the majority group in a racially or ethnically mixed society are less likely to be assimilated than those who are residentially integrated is empirically assessed. Data are used from the 1980 census of population for 139 Texas cities with large Hispanic populations. The results do not provide support for the hypothesis; rather, they suggest that other ecol…
Impacts of the Farm Financial Crisis of the 1980s on Resources and Poverty in Agriculturally Dependent Counties in the United States
The farm financial crisis of the 1980s has had a major effect on agriculturally dependent areas in the United States. The crisis has resulted in a large proportion of producers leaving agriculture, in a substantial decline in the number of rural businesses, and in the support for rural service bases. Although extensively analyzed, the crisis' impacts on resources and poverty have not been adequately evaluated.This paper examines such impacts usin…
The Changing Rural Village in America: Demographic and Economic Trends Since 1950
An attempt is made to provide an assessment of rural village communities in the United States and to demonstrate on a national scale the process of change in village demographic and economic characteristics between 1950 and 1980 a period of major adjustment in response to urban-centered innovations and pressures. A village is defined as an incorporated place with a population of less than 2500. Data are taken from U.S. censuses for 1950 through 1…
An assessment of the accuracy of a regional economic-demographic projection model
A large number of regional economic-demographic projection models have been developed but their accuracy has seldom been evaluated. This article examines the accuracy of one such model in projecting total populations for 1980, using 1970 base data, for 106 counties and 553 places in two states. Comparisons of the model’s projections to 1980 Census counts reveal mean percentage absolute differences of 10 percent for counties and 14 percent for pla…
Support for Waste Facility Siting: Differences between Community Leaders and Residents
Decisions regarding hazardous waste facility siting are now open to extensive public debate. Efforts on the part of public officials and private companies to site waste management facilities have been thwarted by public opposition. Using survey data from leaders and residents in communities which are hosting or siting facilities, this study examines their sociodemographic characteristics, knowledge, levels of trust, perceptions of risk, perceptio…
Ethnic Enclosure or Ethnic Competition: Ethnic Identification Among Hispanics in Texas
Recent theoretical debates have focused on the utility of two alternative perspectives on ethnic identification. However, empirical support for either is neither consistent nor conclusive and previous analyses seldom conceptually or empirically examine the aggregate macrostructural determinants of ethnic identification. This study reevaluates the relative merits of the ethnic enclosure and ethnic competition perspectives among Texan Hispanics usi…
Nonmetropolitan Residential Segregation Revisited
Nonmetropolitan (nonmetro) residential segregation in 1990 and change in the preceding decade have received insufficient attention. A set of empirical hypotheses are derived and assessed using nonmetro and metropolitan (metro) counties in Texas. Places in nonmetro counties were more segregated than places in metro counties in 1990 as in 1980. Substantial declines in segregation occurred in both nonmetro and metro places but were largest in growin…
The Implications of Change in Population Size and Composition on Future Participation in Outdoor Recreational Activities
The future U.S. population will grow slowly, age significantly, and have larger minority components. These factors' effects on recreational behavior have received extensive attention, but analyses of the future number of participants have inadequately examined the simultaneous effects of demographic variables.The results from a national cohort-component population projection employing age, race/ethnicity, and activity-specific rates of cohort par…
Determinants of 1980 to 1990 Net Migration in Texas Counties: The Role of Sustenance Specialization and Dominance in International Ecosystems
Patterns of 1980-1990 migration differ markedly from those of the 1970s but they have received little conceptual or empirical analysis because of limited data and because their diversity has resisted theoretical generalization. An expanded human ecological perspective incorporating international dimensions is hypothesized to explain differentials in migration during the 1980s. Counties with key functions which operate in international ecosystems …
Modeling demographic change and characteristics in the analysis of future demand for leisure services
Populations are likely to grow slowly, age significantly, and show increased proportions of minorities in the coming decades. Such factors have received extensive attention as determinants of leisure behavior, but models for projecting future demand for leisure services have often failed to incorporate adequately the simultaneous interactive effects of age, race/ethnicity, and population growth. A cohort‐component population projection model empl…
Racial Attraction or Racial Avoidance in American Suburbs
The principle of homophily is central to several social-science theories. When applied to the study of population change in geographic areas, these theories predict racial homogeneity in residential settlement patterns. The concentration of one group in an area is expected to attract same-group members while deterring others. We examine this prediction using data on 1980–90 population change for four ethnic groups in 1,672 U.S. suburban cities. T…
The effect of undercount on the accuracy of small-area population estimates: Implications for the use of administrative data for improving population enumeration
International Dimensions of Post-1980 Internal Migration in the United States: The Role of Sustenance Specialization and Dominance
Post-1980 internal migration patterns were unanticipated, and prevailing explanations of them fail to account for the effects of new international relationships. A human ecological theory is developed which suggests an explanation based on the sphere of sustenance activities in ecosystems and relative dominance in these activities. Larger net migration was expected for counties specialized in activities that operate in international ecosystems in…
Understanding Farm Structure and Demographic Change: An Ecological Analysis of the Impacts of Irrigation
During this century, rapid changes in the structure of agriculture have had a profound effect on agricultural production and rural areas dependent on agriculture. Unfortunately, however, holistic theoretical models to explain and understand the causes and consequences of these changes have yet to be adequately developed. In this article, a model derived from sociological human ecology is used to longitudinally examine the consequences of environm…
An assessment of socioeconomic assessments: Utility, accuracy, and policy considerations
Waste facility experience and perceptions of waste-related health and safety risks
Based on ecological theory, we hypothesize that positive experience with waste facility siting and storage will reduce the perceived health and safety risks associated with waste sites. Evidence is presented from data collected in 15 communities in the states of Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and Colorado. Seven of these communities are hosting or were potential sites for hazardous waste facilities, four were the sites of other types of rural i…
The importance of demographic analyses in state- and local-level policy evaluations: A case study analysis of property taxes in Texas, USA
Impacts of the Farm Financial Crisis of the 1980s on Resources and Poverty in Agriculturally Dependent Counties in the United States
The farm financial crisis of the 1980s has had a major effect on agriculturally dependent areas in the United States. The crisis has resulted in a large proportion of producers leaving agriculture, in a substantial decline in the number of rural businesses, and in the support for rural service bases. Although extensively analyzed, the crisis' impacts on resources and poverty have not been adequately evaluated.This paper examines such impacts usin…
Local Social Disruption and Western Energy Development: [A Critical Review]: Commentary
An assessment of socioeconomic assessments: Utility, accuracy, and policy considerations
An assessment of the accuracy of a regional economic-demographic projection model
A large number of regional economic-demographic projection models have been developed but their accuracy has seldom been evaluated. This article examines the accuracy of one such model in projecting total populations for 1980, using 1970 base data, for 106 counties and 553 places in two states. Comparisons of the model’s projections to 1980 Census counts reveal mean percentage absolute differences of 10 percent for counties and 14 percent for pla…
Nuclear Waste: Socioeconomic Dimensions of Long-Term Storage
The Changing Rural Village in America: Demographic and Economic Trends Since 1950
An attempt is made to provide an assessment of rural village communities in the United States and to demonstrate on a national scale the process of change in village demographic and economic characteristics between 1950 and 1980 a period of major adjustment in response to urban-centered innovations and pressures. A village is defined as an incorporated place with a population of less than 2500. Data are taken from U.S. censuses for 1950 through 1…
Understanding Farm Structure and Demographic Change: An Ecological Analysis of the Impacts of Irrigation
During this century, rapid changes in the structure of agriculture have had a profound effect on agricultural production and rural areas dependent on agriculture. Unfortunately, however, holistic theoretical models to explain and understand the causes and consequences of these changes have yet to be adequately developed. In this article, a model derived from sociological human ecology is used to longitudinally examine the consequences of environm…
Residential Segregation and Ethnic Identification among Hispanics in Texas
The hypothesis that racial or ethnic minority groups that are residentially segregated from the majority group in a racially or ethnically mixed society are less likely to be assimilated than those who are residentially integrated is empirically assessed. Data are used from the 1980 census of population for 139 Texas cities with large Hispanic populations. The results do not provide support for the hypothesis; rather, they suggest that other ecol…
Impacts of the Farm Financial Crisis of the 1980s on Resources and Poverty in Agriculturally Dependent Counties in the United States
The farm financial crisis of the 1980s has had a major effect on agriculturally dependent areas in the United States. The crisis has resulted in a large proportion of producers leaving agriculture, in a substantial decline in the number of rural businesses, and in the support for rural service bases. Although extensively analyzed, the crisis' impacts on resources and poverty have not been adequately evaluated.This paper examines such impacts usin…
Modeling demographic change and characteristics in the analysis of future demand for leisure services
Populations are likely to grow slowly, age significantly, and show increased proportions of minorities in the coming decades. Such factors have received extensive attention as determinants of leisure behavior, but models for projecting future demand for leisure services have often failed to incorporate adequately the simultaneous interactive effects of age, race/ethnicity, and population growth. A cohort‐component population projection model empl…
The socioeconomic dimensions of global climate change: Searching for a theoretical and empirical base
The Implications of Change in Population Size and Composition on Future Participation in Outdoor Recreational Activities
The future U.S. population will grow slowly, age significantly, and have larger minority components. These factors' effects on recreational behavior have received extensive attention, but analyses of the future number of participants have inadequately examined the simultaneous effects of demographic variables.The results from a national cohort-component population projection employing age, race/ethnicity, and activity-specific rates of cohort par…
Ethnic Enclosure or Ethnic Competition: Ethnic Identification Among Hispanics in Texas
Recent theoretical debates have focused on the utility of two alternative perspectives on ethnic identification. However, empirical support for either is neither consistent nor conclusive and previous analyses seldom conceptually or empirically examine the aggregate macrostructural determinants of ethnic identification. This study reevaluates the relative merits of the ethnic enclosure and ethnic competition perspectives among Texan Hispanics usi…
International Dimensions of Post-1980 Internal Migration in the United States: The Role of Sustenance Specialization and Dominance
Post-1980 internal migration patterns were unanticipated, and prevailing explanations of them fail to account for the effects of new international relationships. A human ecological theory is developed which suggests an explanation based on the sphere of sustenance activities in ecosystems and relative dominance in these activities. Larger net migration was expected for counties specialized in activities that operate in international ecosystems in…
Applied Demography: An Introduction to Basic Concepts, Methods, and Data
Part 1 Introduction: the characteristics of applied demography. Part 2 Basic concepts of applied demography: the basic demographic variables secondary demographic and related socio-economic variables. Part 3 The sources of demographic data for applied analysis: sources of data on basic demographic variables sources of data on secondary demographic and related variables. Part 4 Methods for applied demographic analysis: general demographic measures…
The Sociology of U.S. Agriculture: An Ecological Perspective
Determinants of 1980 to 1990 Net Migration in Texas Counties: The Role of Sustenance Specialization and Dominance in International Ecosystems
Patterns of 1980-1990 migration differ markedly from those of the 1970s but they have received little conceptual or empirical analysis because of limited data and because their diversity has resisted theoretical generalization. An expanded human ecological perspective incorporating international dimensions is hypothesized to explain differentials in migration during the 1980s. Counties with key functions which operate in international ecosystems …
Nonmetropolitan Residential Segregation Revisited
Nonmetropolitan (nonmetro) residential segregation in 1990 and change in the preceding decade have received insufficient attention. A set of empirical hypotheses are derived and assessed using nonmetro and metropolitan (metro) counties in Texas. Places in nonmetro counties were more segregated than places in metro counties in 1990 as in 1980. Substantial declines in segregation occurred in both nonmetro and metro places but were largest in growin…
The effect of undercount on the accuracy of small-area population estimates: Implications for the use of administrative data for improving population enumeration
An America Challenged: Population Change and the Future of the United States
The implications of demographic change for recreational fisheries management in the United States
Projected decreased rates of population growth, increased immigration, an aging population, and increased numbers and proportions of minority residents will impact the demand for recreational fishing and fisheries management in the United States. Recent age and race/ ethnicity specific population projections and data on participation in, and expenditures for, fishing were used to examine the impacts of future demographic trends on angler numbers,…
An American Challenged: Population Change and the Future of the United States
An America Challenged: Population Change and the Future of the United States
The implications of future population change in America - the rationale and scope for an assessment. Part 1 The demographic context of change in America: America's demographic past - setting the framework for the future America's future population - analyzing alternative demographic futures. Part 2 The implications of population - change for America's future: the labour force - implications for America's competitiveness population change, househo…
Socioeconomic development, status of women, family planning, and fertility in Bangladesh: A district level analysis
In this paper we examine the effects of socioeconomic development, the status of women, and family planning on fertility and the extent to which these effects vary among the nineteen districts of Bangladesh. The 1983 and 1991 Bangladesh Contraceptive Prevalence Survey data are used to examine the effects of these factors on differences in contraceptive use among currently married women aged 15-49. The proportion of currently married women aged 15…
Economic and fiscal impacts of waste and non-waste development in rural United States
This paper investigates the differences in the economic and fiscal impacts between communities, and their respective counties, which had experienced economic development from the siting and operation of waste processing and disposal facilities, versus those that had experienced economic development from other types of retail, wholesale distribution, or manufacturing businesses. These communities and their respective counties are compared and cont…
Waste facility experience and perceptions of waste-related health and safety risks
Based on ecological theory, we hypothesize that positive experience with waste facility siting and storage will reduce the perceived health and safety risks associated with waste sites. Evidence is presented from data collected in 15 communities in the states of Nebraska, Oklahoma, Texas, Utah, and Colorado. Seven of these communities are hosting or were potential sites for hazardous waste facilities, four were the sites of other types of rural i…
Geography (20 works) · Demography (19 works) · Sociology (19 works) · Population (18 works) · Economics (15 works) · Political science (15 works) · Demography (11 works) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (9 works) · Ethnic group (8 works) · Business (7 works)