TY - JOUR
T1 - Quantitatively defining and mapping rural: A case study of North Carolina
AU - Mulrooney, Timothy
AU - Liang, Chyi Lyi
AU - Kurkalova, Lyubov A
AU - McGinn, Christopher
AU - Okoli, Chima
PY - 2023/1/1
Y1 - 2023/1/1
N2 - Contemporary research has measured differences between rural and its urban/suburban counterparts on the backdrop of social, economic, political and health phenomena. However, given the ambiguity of its definition, varying meanings and applications of the word ‘rural’ exist. In this paper we explored three different popular uses of the term rural on the backdrop of quantitative data with findings highlighting 1) there do exist statistical differences in data depending upon how rural is defined and 2) the definition of rural provided through the USDA's Rural-Urban Commuting Areas (RUCA) best aligned with other definitions of rural.
AB - Contemporary research has measured differences between rural and its urban/suburban counterparts on the backdrop of social, economic, political and health phenomena. However, given the ambiguity of its definition, varying meanings and applications of the word ‘rural’ exist. In this paper we explored three different popular uses of the term rural on the backdrop of quantitative data with findings highlighting 1) there do exist statistical differences in data depending upon how rural is defined and 2) the definition of rural provided through the USDA's Rural-Urban Commuting Areas (RUCA) best aligned with other definitions of rural.
KW - Geographic information systems
KW - Rural geography
KW - Statistical analysis
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2022.11.011
DO - 10.1016/j.jrurstud.2022.11.011
M3 - Article
SN - 0743-0167
VL - 97
SP - 47
EP - 56
JO - Journal of Rural Studies
JF - Journal of Rural Studies
IS - Issue
ER -