… structural factors and child maltreatment report rates in a suburban county through replication
of … Rates of child maltreatment were calculated for the county’s 159 census tracts. Principal …

… from sociology and psychology about the factors important to residents' overall “sense of
community” in a suburban region. Using data from the 1990 Orange County (CA) Annual Survey…

… suburban communities in the contemporary US setting. We do not attempt to review the
voluminous literature on the early suburbs, … In the post-World War II era, many factors led to the …

… Left unanswered in the current research is how family factors are related to substance use
among adolescents across rural, suburban, and urban settings. Prevalence rates may be …

… change’s driving factors, for this study we selected 30 variables based on data availability
and judgment about the Wisconsin situation to examine the factors’ relationships with …

… of the community is the single most important explanatory factor in the model. In three of the
models-death rate for all causes (B = -.61), infant mortality rate (B = -.41), and death rate from …

… heterogeneity of the population as one of the factors driving social capital formation, if only
… at the level of individual families, urban and suburban neighborhoods, rural communities, or …

… The high school appears to be the central factor of community organization in many suburban
areas. It is the one point around which many of the community activities can center. Also …

… The causal relationships between each set of the variables based on our conceptual … also
constructed based on the results of Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) and Confirmatory factor …

… from central cities to suburbs is affected by central-city crime as a "push" factor (Frey 1979).
Hence, locational choices may be affected by perceptions of community quality, including …