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Provedor de dados: | 31
País: | United States
Título: | A Continuous Multi-dimensional Measure of Rurality: Moving Beyond Threshold Measures
Autores: | Waldorf,   Brigitte S.
Data: | 2006-05-24
Ano: | 2006
Palavras-chave: | Community/Rural/Urban Development.
Resumo: | This paper introduces the Index of Relative Rurality, a continuous measure of rurality.  The index is based on four dimensions: population size, density, percentage of urban residents, and distance to the closest metropolitan area. The index varies from 0 (most urban) to 1 (most rural). Compared to existing means of measuring rurality, the index is continuous and thus does not suffer from problems that arise when using arbitrary thresholds to separate discrete categories.  This shift away from often ill-defined categories of rural and urban, to measuring the degree of rurality will shed new light on a wide array of rural issues ranging from rural poverty to economic growth. This paper shows that the Index of Relative Rurality makes an invaluable contribution to the debate on what is rural and what is urban. Three properties of the index are particularly beneficial for both research and policy: rurality is treated as a relative attribute, making it possible to investigate trajectories of rurality over time; sensitivity to small changes in one of the defining dimensions; applicability to different spatial scales.
Tipo: | Conference Paper or Presentation
Idioma: | Inglês

Identificador:

21522

http://purl.umn.edu/21383

Editor: | AgEcon Search

Relação:

American Agricultural Economics Association&gt;2006 Annual meeting, July 23-26, Long Beach, CA

Selected Paper

Formato:

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