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Estimating the Relative Rurality of U.S. Counties*

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2016

Blair J. Smith  and
David W. Parvin Jr.
Blair J. Smith
Affiliation:
Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802
David W. Parvin Jr.
Affiliation:
Mississippi State University, Mississippi State, MS 39762
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In context of the phrase “Rural Development”, so much a part of the current vocabulary of social scientists, the term ‘rural’ is often poorly defined and loosely used. Partly because of the great diversity in definitions of rural, both expressed and implied, a coherent and comprehensive rural development literature has not emerged. Obviously, rural development refers to the development of whatever is rural. The aim of this paper is to deal only with the question of what is rural, leaving the matter of what consitutes development to other writers.

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Journal of Agricultural and Applied Economics , Volume 7 , Issue 2 , December 1975 , pp. 51 - 60
Copyright
Copyright © Southern Agricultural Economics Association 1975

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Authorized for publication on April 18, 1975 as paper No. 4850 in the journal Beries of the Pennsylvania Agricultural Experiment Station.

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