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Census Tracts More Precisely Define Rural Populations and Areas

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  • Cromartie, John B.
  • Swanson, Linda L.

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Accurate analysis of the economic and social problems currently facing urban and rural residents, as well as the implementation of programs to address them, largely depend on how settlement is measured. Counties are too big in many parts of the Nation to serve as building blocks for statistical areas used to analyze changing settlement patterns. Census tracts are used here to identify metro and nonmetro components of a five-level “rural-urban continuum.” The census-tract continuum provides a more precise territorial delineation of areas and classification of population in different types of areas than does the county-level continuum.

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  • Cromartie, John B. & Swanson, Linda L., 1996. "Census Tracts More Precisely Define Rural Populations and Areas," Rural America/ Rural Development Perspectives, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, vol. 11(3), June.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uersra:289755
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.289755
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    1. Ronald Cossman & Jeralynn Cossman & Arthur Cosby & Rebel Reavis, 2008. "Reconsidering the Rural–Urban Continuum in Rural Health Research: A Test of Stable Relationships Using Mortality as a Health Measure," Population Research and Policy Review, Springer;Southern Demographic Association (SDA), vol. 27(4), pages 459-476, August.

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