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  • Örjan Pettersson

    () (CERUM - Centre for Regional Science, UmeåUniversity, SE-901 87 Umeå, Sweden)

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    This study of the county of Västerbotten in northern Sweden reveals significant differences in socio-economic conditions between populations living in different residential environments. A cluster analysis was performed in order to classify the nearly 500 microregions into a manageable number of groups with distinctive profiles. A seven-cluster solution contains groups ranging from remote and sparsely populated areas with poor socio- economic conditions and a large proportion of elderly to the most prosperous residential environments within the major centers. Besides high disposable incomes, the relatively wealthy areas also show high educational levels and better-than-average health status. In this way the county could be broken down into a mosaic of local housing environments with very different prerequisites for consumption and economic development. Increasingly, we find socio-economic marginality problems even within densely populated regions. The complex and dispersed pattern of disadvantaged and underprivileged residential areas all over Västerbotten indicates the difficulty in treating counties and municipalities as homogeneous regions. Our findings may have major implications for regional planning and regional policy.

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    Article provided by Springer in its journal Papers in Regional Science.

    Volume (Year): 80 (2001)
    Issue (Month): 4 ()
    Pages: 389-409

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    Handle: RePEc:spr:presci:v:80:y:2001:i:4:p:389-409

    Note: Received: 17 August 1997
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    Keywords: Regional development; rural change; welfare; cluster analysis;

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    1. Eichhorst, Anja, 2007. "Evaluating the need assessment in fiscal equalization schemes at the local government level," The Journal of Socio-Economics, Elsevier, vol. 36(5), pages 745-770, October.

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