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from the issue of April 5, 2007
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Rural Poll to focus on retirement issues
BY DAN MOSER, IANR NEWS SERVICE
Retirement attitudes and plans are among the issues that will be explored in the 2007 Nebraska Rural Poll.
This is the 12th year UNL researchers have surveyed rural views. Questionnaires were mailed in the final week of March to about 7,000 randomly selected households in Nebraska's 84 rural counties. Researchers will analyze and report results this summer.
Retirement is a particularly timely topic in Nebraska, said Randy Cantrell, UNL rural sociologist and one of the Rural Poll team members.
"The first of over 350,000 Nebraska baby boomers will reach retirement age in the next five years," he said. "When, where and under what circumstances individuals choose to leave Nebraska's labor force will have a profound impact on the future of our state. What we learn today concerning their plans can help us in planning for that impact."
The 2007 poll also will explore rural Nebraskans' attitudes about immigration enforcement and the effects of globalization.
Each year, the poll asks core questions about community, quality of life and personal well-being to track rural trends and changes over time, said Becky Vogt, the poll's manager.
Each poll also asks policy-related questions that change annually.
The university's Center for Applied Rural Innovation conducts the poll in cooperation with the Rural Initiative and Public Policy Center with funding from the Partnership for Rural Nebraska and UNL Extension and the Agricultural Research Division in the Institute of Agriculture and Natural Resources.
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