Original scientific paper

Migration in Serbia: the Results of a Survey

Milena Davidović ; Institute of Social Sciences, Belgrade, Serbia

Abstract

On the territory of the Socialist Republic of Serbia, without autonomous provinces, at the end of 1986, collection of data for the questionnaire survey “The Social Structure of Contemporary Yugoslav Society“ was completed. The survey was conducted in 101 communes from five regions of this area. The total number of respondents was 2,798 in the age group of 18 to 65, taken as a representative sample from the electoral lists in which they live. The survey, otherwise, has a general Yugoslav character, in view of the fact that it was conducted on the basis of the same questionnaire in all the other republics and autonomous provinces. In regard to the social structure of contemporary Yugoslavia, which was the basic theme of this extensive survey – the researchers, justifiably, attempted to exa¬mine not only the significance that population migration has on the social changes and development of Yugoslav society, but also their possible influence on the content and changes of certain factors in the structure of this society. In the survey, basic data was collected which indicates the main traits and directions of population movement in the mentioned area of the Republic of Serbia. On the basis of respondents' answers, a picture was provided of the length of stay and habitation in the same place; furthermore, whether or not and how employment effects migrations; what are, in regard to size and type, the settlements from which the respondents migrated and, finally, what was the migration flow from other republics, provinces and from abroad.

Keywords

migration; social structure; Serbia

Hrčak ID:

127666

URI

https://hrcak.srce.hr/127666

Publication date:

31.8.1990.

Article data in other languages: serbian croatian

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