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The characteristics of the migration caused by marriage in 3 cities and 5 towns-of Kagawa Prefecture in 1949 may be summarized as follows
1. Migration rate per 1, 000 inhabitants is 19.0, 93% of which is occupi-ed by women, and 11.1.% by divorcees.
2. The greater the population of a city, the higher the rate of influx to efflux, and vice versa. The relation between the population of a city and the rate of migrators is indicated by a curved line.
3. The greater the population of a city, the higher the rate of intra-city migration, and the relation between the population of a city and the number of intra-city z xmigration is also shown by a curved line.
4. The number of intra-prefecture irrigation is greater than that of the migration between Kagawa and other prefectures, and in this case the, infl-ux people into cities outnumber the efflux people from the cities. The sphere of intermarriage is defined to a limited area surrounding the cities which respectively. forms an elliptical area with major axis in N-S direction. The greater the population of the city, the larger the area of the sphere of intermarriage, and the relation between them is indicated by a straight line.
5. In case of the migration between the cities of Kagawa prefecture and other prefectures, efflux people from the cities are more numerous than in-flux people into the cities. The sphere of intermarriage of this case cover Osaka-Kobe area, Setouchi, Shikoku, and the northern parts of Kyushu etc.
6. Judging from the rates, the migration caused by marriage was made in the following order: (1) within native cities and towns, (2) within the prefecture, (3) between Kagawa and other prefectures. Generally speak-ing, in the cases of (2) and (90), the cities and towns of Kagawa prefecture had influx people from the farm villages within the prefecture and efflux people in the cities and towns in other prefectures.
7. The migration caused by marriage took place mainly in April, Janu-ary, October, May, December and February, and most infrequent in June, July, August and. September. But the migration caused by divoce took place mainly in August, and infrequent in November. It is clear that the mig-ration have a close connection with the season.

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