Tag Archives: spatial variation

Examining the Urban and the Rural

February 9, 2015 · by · in Data, Migration and geography, Population and development · 2 Comments

This is a post by Ashira Menashe-Oren on varying age structures between rural and urban areas in Sub-Saharan Africa and their consequences. The rural-urban dichotomy is the one of the most common classifications used to describe population distribution within a country. Available for many data sources, it is a simple binary measure. It is universally […]

Location, location, location! Why space matters in demography and why we should care.

November 6, 2014 · by · in Fertility, Methods, Migration and geography, Research spotlight · 5 Comments

Alessandra Carioli (Netherlands Interdisciplinary Demographic Institute) prepared this overview based on her study presented at EPC 2014 in Budapest “A Spatial Analysis of Recent Fertility Patterns in Spain”. This study won one of the poster awards at EPC 2014 and is co-authored together with Daniel Devolder (Centre d’Estudis Demographics, UAB) and Joaquin Recaño (Centre d’Estudis […]