Abstract:This paper tests how far population change in 412 rural communities of southeastern Australia is predetermined by five 'drivers': remoteness, amenity, town size, rural population density, and concentration/dispersal of the population. Testing their combined impact through multiple correlation analysis, it finds that over the ten-year period 1996-2006, the status of the five drivers measured in 1996 explains (statistically) some 53% of the variance in the actual population change in the communities. When the de… Show more
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