| Autor: |
Kent Bausman, Leonard E. Bloomquist, Rashida Qureshi, Donald J. Adamchak |
| Rok vydání: |
2009 |
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| Zdroj: |
Rural Sociology. 64:92-112 |
| ISSN: |
0036-0112 |
| DOI: |
10.1111/j.1549-0831.1999.tb00006.x |
| Popis: |
This study examined the relationship between population decline in 438 counties and local retail and wholesale (R/W) sectors during 1950-90 in the nonmetropolitan Great Plains states of North and South Dakota Montana Wyoming Nebraska Oklahoma New Mexico and Colorado. The focus was on the impact of population change in a region where the R/W trade sector has been a major source of employment for nonmetropolitan residents post-1945. Population declined over the long term. Analysis was based on economic restructuring views and central place theory. Data were obtained from the Censuses of Population (1950-90) and from the County and City Data Books (1947-94). The choice of few control variables was based on Liebersons (1985) methods. Analysis included tests for multicollinearity. Findings are reported for counties adjacent to a metro area (AM) urban nonadjacent (UN) counties and rural nonadjacent (RN) counties. Findings indicate that the 1980s had the greatest population loss (84% of counties) despite the population increases of the 1970s. AM counties followed the regional pattern. UN counties followed the regional pattern only in recent decades. RN counties lost population throughout the period and had the greatest percentage of counties losing population. Population change had a positive significant effect on R/W employment throughout the period and in all types of counties. Trade became more concentrated in larger more diverse and fewer trade centers especially in UN counties. Gains occurred in the 1990s. Four anomalies were identified. Findings support the work of Drabenstott and Smith (1996). |
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