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Message: <blockquote data-quote="aramis erak" data-source="post: 6467424" data-attributes="member: 6779310">There are several. Many are by educators, and focus on the much more frequent transfers of students. Some are in the Corps of Engineers records (tho those only go to the 1970's that I saw, working at the local branch of the National Archives). The IRS has done some. None of which I have convenient links to, as they're stuff I read during my bachelors (early 90's) and masters (2006-2008), or during my time at the archives (1996-1998).My own employer has done studies that show student mobility has gone up immensely in the last 10 years; some schools have student body turnover rates in excess of 200% of the peak enrollment. As an example, a school with a peak enrollment of 457 students having had 250 stay through the year, but having had 870 transfers during the year.... that's only 3 out and 3 in per week... only half the student body staying put for the full year, and every other seat changing 3-4 times...  working at that school, the longest I went without an enrollment change was 9 working days... 9 of the last 11 days of that school year. (the last 5 days, no transfers were permitted; I had one student who got expelled on the second to last day for violence after school the day before. He left in police custody.) Of those, most are in-district - but only about 60%. Overall, the district has a 30-40% student mobility rate - 30-40% in any given year will transfer schools at least once. The turnover rate is higher than that.UAA's ISER did a study on population mobility in the 90's. The data available from the US Census Bureau shows a peak mobility rate of around 46% of the population in the 1990's, and in the last 10 years it's dropped to the mid 30's... dropping to levels that (surprising to me) are below any time since 1960. In the 2005-2010 window, they note that 65% of people ages 18-30 have moved at least once. Their data, however, doesn't show how many moves that's been. My district's internal stuff shows that in-district moves are way up, and out of state moves are up, from the 1970's data.Most of what I've seen has focused on education; that is my graduate major.</blockquote>

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