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Regional population and social welfare from the perspective of sustainability: Evaluation indicator, level measurement, and interaction mechanism

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  • Xueyi Wang
  • Mingchun Li
  • Taiyi He
  • Ke Li
  • Shengzhe Wang
  • Haoxiang Zhao

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Key to regional sustainable development are the development and interplay of population dynamics and social welfare, each playing a significant role. As a representative region with demographic characteristics such as negative population growth and large labor outflow, the development and interaction between population and social welfare in Nanchong deserve in-depth exploration. This article takes the development of population and social welfare in Nanchong as the research object, and constructs an evaluation indicator system of population and social welfare through research backtracking, and uses entropy method and coupling coordination model to measure the development level and interactive effect of population and social welfare in Nanchong from 2010 to 2021. The research results show that: Firstly, the comprehensive evaluation results of population in Nanchong shows a linear upward trend, which indicates the stable positive effect of population structure and distribution, the gradual improvement effect of population quality effectively compensate for the weakening effect of population quantity, thus achieving the positive development of population. Secondly, the comprehensive evaluation results of social welfare in Nanchong shows an exponential upward trend, which indicates the social welfare has maintained a rapid growth momentum in various dimensions and the long-term positive effects have completely absorbed the negative effects, thus achieving the positive development of social welfare. Thirdly, during the sample period, the population and social welfare in Nanchong consistently maintained a high level of interaction strength, with factors diffusing and integrating. On this basis, the diffusion theory is used as an empirical reference to construct three interactive mechanisms between the population and social welfare in Nanchong and the implications are inferred from the empirical results.

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  • Xueyi Wang & Mingchun Li & Taiyi He & Ke Li & Shengzhe Wang & Haoxiang Zhao, 2024. "Regional population and social welfare from the perspective of sustainability: Evaluation indicator, level measurement, and interaction mechanism," PLOS ONE, Public Library of Science, vol. 19(1), pages 1-18, January.
    • Handle: RePEc:plo:pone00:0296517
    DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0296517
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