Date of Award:

5-1975

Document Type:

Thesis

Degree Name:

Master of Science (MS)

Department:

Economics and Finance

Department name when degree awarded

Economics

Committee Chair(s)

Rondo A. Christensen

Committee

Rondo A. Christensen

Committee

Lynn Davis

Committee

Cris Lewis

Committee

Willian Asplund

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to provide interested rural Utah parties with a description of the financial structure and impacts of rural Utah manufacturing firms on the local and state economies. Direct interviews with plant managers were used to gather the necessary data.

Rural Utah manufacturing firms were grouped into nine different categories according to the type of product produced. Mean financial statements of each group were presented, with a breakdown of where each type of expenditure was made, whether locally, in-state, or out of state.

Regression analysis was used to generate predictive equations for the propensity to consume locally and in state, and for the propensity to sell out of the local area and out of state.

Discussions of the location and make up of rural Utah manufacturing were also included along with a discussion of the factors influencing manufacturing firms to locate in rural Utah.

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