This report presents statistics on the movement of persons 5 years old and over between State economic areas during the period 1965 to 1970. The 510 State economic areas into which the United States is divided are subdivisions of States, consisting of single counties or groups of counties having similar social and economic characteristics. The data were obtained from a question on residence on April 1, 1965, asked in the 1970 Census of Population, which was conducted as of April 1, 1970.
The text consists of an introduction and four appendices which appear after the tables.
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Appendices
Sample size. The statistics presented in this report are based on a 15-percent sample inflated to represent the total population.
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