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Population Dynamics and Settlement Systems
Author(s) -
CHALMERS LEX,
JOSEPH ALUN
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
new zealand geographer
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.335
H-Index - 25
eISSN - 1745-7939
pISSN - 0028-8144
DOI - 10.1111/j.1745-7939.1997.tb00472.x
Subject(s) - human settlement , settlement (finance) , geography , metropolitan area , economic geography , period (music) , population , section (typography) , rural settlement , socioeconomics , regional science , demography , rural area , sociology , political science , archaeology , economics , physics , business , finance , advertising , acoustics , law , payment
The paper uses five broad classes of settlement in the Waikato as a base for exploring age and gender specific changes to population distributions. The trends are assessed over the period 1981 to 1991, an era of significant change to the economic and social fabric of the region. Links between this change and the inferred patterns of movement are suggested. Notable patterns include migration deficits in the youthful and elderly age classes in sparsely settled rural areas, and more substantial numbers of elderly in other non metropolitan settlements than expected. The policy implications of these distributions are considered in the concluding section of the paper.