Post by Logan on Feb 17, 2016 8:11:45 GMT -6
BISMARCK – More than 80 percent of nonresidents working in North Dakota's oil and gas industry don't want to put down roots in the state, while those who want to relocate see housing costs as a major barrier, researchers found in a survey released Tuesday.
Results of the survey by North Dakota State University researchers Nancy Hodur and Dean Bangsund were presented Tuesday to a few hundred real estate agents, lenders, property developers, city officials and others at the state Housing Finance Agency's annual conference in Bismarck.
The researchers surveyed 15 firms representing 8,100 employees from across the industry in late 2014 and mid-2015. The companies agreed to email the questionnaire to their employees, and 1,668 workers responded, about 30 percent of them being from out of state, Hodur said.
When asked if they would like to move to North Dakota, only 19 percent of nonresident workers said yes.
Read more: www.inforum.com/news/3949474-survey-most-out-state-oil-workers-not-interested-moving-nd
Results of the survey by North Dakota State University researchers Nancy Hodur and Dean Bangsund were presented Tuesday to a few hundred real estate agents, lenders, property developers, city officials and others at the state Housing Finance Agency's annual conference in Bismarck.
The researchers surveyed 15 firms representing 8,100 employees from across the industry in late 2014 and mid-2015. The companies agreed to email the questionnaire to their employees, and 1,668 workers responded, about 30 percent of them being from out of state, Hodur said.
When asked if they would like to move to North Dakota, only 19 percent of nonresident workers said yes.
Read more: www.inforum.com/news/3949474-survey-most-out-state-oil-workers-not-interested-moving-nd