Developing Vitality Indices with Housing Variables: Comparing Non-Metropolitan Utah and Idaho Counties

Hawks, Leona K.; Williams, Doris K.; Delgadillo, Lucy M.; Cann, Sandra E.; Steggell, Carmen D.

doi:10.1080/08882746.2000.11430443

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“…J. C. Bureau and L. P. Mahé (2009) argue that vitality is the ability of rural residents to have access to an acceptable level of social services package. How rural dwellers deal with social, economic changes, transforming rural life depends not only on delivered services, amenities, spatial characteristics, economic structure and performance, but also and essentially on rural residents -one of the rural vitality element (Turcanu, 2012), the social portrait of them, their characteristics, human capital (Barkley, 2004), housing and living conditions (Crull, 2000;Hawks, 2000).…”

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The development of rural residents social portrait in 2001–2011

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Pareigienė

2015

Management Theory and Studies for Rural Business and Infrastructure Development

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The concept of rural vitality often used to describe the rural areas as specific areas that are of particular significance not only for the region but also the country as a whole. Depending on the objectives investigated there are different indicators used to evaluate the vitality – one of them – rural residents social portrait. Purpose of the research is to identify the impact of changes of social portrait of rural residents on rural vitality. In this study, the indicators of general censuses of 2001 and 2011 were used to assess the social portrait of rural residents. The results showed that changes of social portrait of rural residents had both positive and negative trends on rural vitality. As positive trends should be mentioned rising higher grade educated, multilingual population, a rapidly improving life and living conditions in the rural areas compared with the townspeople. The trends adversely affected the vitality of rural areas are: depopulation, the growing share of elderly in the structure of the rural population, declining rural population’s entrepreneurship, decline of number of income sources and continued growth in the share of persons living of wage labor.

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