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Socioeconomic Characteristics of Growing and Declining Nonmetropolitan Counties, 1970

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Population decline can adversely affect an area's social and economic composition, its age structure, the structure of its labor force, and its ability to generate income to support essential programs and activities. Counties with declining population have a deficit of working age population and a relatively high proportion of dependent age groups. Declining counties trail the growing counties in family income, labor force participation by females, and employment in manufacturing; they are characterized by much higher than average employment in low-wage and low-skill extractive industries. A substantial number of counties that declined during the 1960's are currently experiencing population growth. Hence, population decline is not necessarily irreversible; not all declining areas are being bypassed by the process of national economic growth.

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  • Brown, David L., 1975. "Socioeconomic Characteristics of Growing and Declining Nonmetropolitan Counties, 1970," Agricultural Economic Reports 307551, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    • Handle: RePEc:ags:uerser:307551
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.307551
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    1. Hines, Fred K. & Brown, David L. & Zimmer, John M., 1975. "Social and Economic Characteristics of the Population in Metro and Nonmetro Counties, 1970," Agricultural Economic Reports 307517, United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service.
    2. Glenn Fuguitt & Donald Field, 1972. "Some population characteristics of villages differentiated by size, location, and growth," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 9(2), pages 295-308, May.
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    1. Kenneth Johnson & Ross Purdy, 1980. "Recent nonmetropolitan population change in fifty-year perspective," Demography, Springer;Population Association of America (PAA), vol. 17(1), pages 57-70, February.
    2. Jaclyn Butler & Grace A. Wildermuth & Brian C. Thiede & David L. Brown, 2020. "Population Change and Income Inequality in Rural America," Population Research and Policy Review, Springer;Southern Demographic Association (SDA), vol. 39(5), pages 889-911, October.

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