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The Search Process in Residential Relocation

Frank Barrett

Department of Geography, Atkinson College, York University

The paper examines the search behavior of 380 movers who were interviewed within four months of moving to a new location. An indices of search behavior are established consisting of measurements of intensity of search, a search cluster and an index on the concentration of the search. A feature of the study is that data on all houses searched are included; as well as the actual house selected. The results indicate that the residential search behavior is a minimizing process. Only two to four houses were examined and the search time was less than a month. The search cluster data indicate that there was limited search in a spatial sense with inner city searchers which include the poor and some ethnic groups, as having the smallest search. From a locational point of view the inner areas portrayed intensive and clustered behavioral patterns while the suburban searchers were more casual and dispersed in their investigations.

Environment and Behavior, Vol. 8, No. 2, 169-198 (1976)
DOI: 10.1177/001391657682002
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