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Economic Activity and Social Indicators: A Rural‐Urban Discontinuum?
Author(s) -
Perry Charles S.
Publication year - 1984
Publication title -
american journal of economics and sociology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.199
H-Index - 38
eISSN - 1536-7150
pISSN - 0002-9246
DOI - 10.1111/j.1536-7150.1984.tb02223.x
Subject(s) - homogeneous , rural area , geography , socioeconomics , rural settlement , economic geography , economic growth , economics , political science , physics , law , thermodynamics
A bstract . Comparisons of urban and rural areas tend to assume that a rural‐urban continuum exists as regards economic and social indicators of well‐being and that rural places are fairly homogeneous. Analysis of Kentucky counties indicates that rural‐urban differences exist as regards economic well‐being and objective social indicators. However, rural‐urban differences are not consistent with respect to subjective social indicators; and there are important differences among economic types of rural counties as regards both economic and social indicators. Thus, the rural‐urban continuum is not general and it is important to distinguish types of rural counties.