Recently Collxer and Semyonov attempted to link more closely diachronic theory and research by decomposing change scores into four components. They applied their measures to 1960-1970 socioeconomic status change among Long Island suburbs. The present article applies these and other alternative measures to suburban income change between 1970 and 1975 in the suburbs of all the largest U.S. urbanized areas for which data were available and tests propositions about the relationship between the components of change and their determinants. Although Collver and Semyonov's measures are useful for describing the conceptually distinct dimensions of change, in some instances alternative indices may be preferable. Hypotheses specific to certain change components find considerable support.
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