and social ideas these newer foreign workers possess.
As recently as 1974, more than one-quarter of the population of Saudi Arabia was officially classified as nomadic (Paxton, 1987, p. 1082). Between 1974 and 1984, however, the total population of the country grew by more than one-thirdùto 9.7 million, and nomadic segment of the population was reduced to approximately one-million, or 10.3 percent. Thus, by 1984, Saudi Arabia's non-nomadic population numbered approximately 8.7 million.
In 1984, foreign workers in Saudi Arabia on a temporary basis accounted for about one-fifth of the country's total population (Ministry of Planning, 1985, p. 253). These approximately two million guest workers, however, accounted for almost 23 percent of the country's non-nomadic population. Further, the great majority of the guest workers in Saudi Arabia are employed in the country's major urban areas. Approximately one-half of the country's total populationù4.8 millionùresides in these major urban areas. As a proportion of Saudi Arabia's urban population, guest worker
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