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Explorations in Spatial Demography

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Population Change and Rural Society

Part of the book series: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis ((PSDE,volume 16))

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In this chapter, we have discussed the role of geographic space in quantitative demography. A re-emerging interest in spatial demography is evidenced by an increasing number of demographers seeking to adopt the formal tools of spatial econometrics to improve on traditional regression models of demographic processes operating in space. The concept of spatial autocorrelation and ways to specify correctly multiple regression models in the presence of spatial autocorrelation are made more concrete through an illustration of spatial modeling of county-level growth in the U.S. Great Plains region during the 1990s.

It is our belief that we will have moved the science of spatial demography forward in very exciting ways as our own statistical models become more sophisticated, as spatial processes are brought into empirical demographic studies to correct for potential misspecification, and as ourwork begins to add significantly to the larger literature on spatial data analysis. The growing interest in the field of spatial econometrics among several disciplines in the social sciences, of which the re-emergence of interest in spatial demography is a part, suggests an exciting future for quantitative demographers.

Please direct all correspondence to Paul R. Voss at 316 Agriculture Hall, 1450 Linden Drive, Madison, WI, 53706, or voss@ssc.wisc.edu. The authors extend their appreciation to David Long and Nick Fisher for assistance and advice regarding the GIS applications and spatial modeling for the Great Plainsworking illustration, to Jeremy White for graphic support, and to Glenn Deane for extensive comments on earlier drafts. This research was supported in part by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, Hatch Grant WIS04536, by the National Institute for Child Health and Human Development, Center Grant HD05876 and Training Grant HD07014, and by the University of Wisconsin Center for Demography T and Ecology, through its Geographic Information and Analysis Core.

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  1. The Center for Demography and Ecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

    Katherine J. Curtis White (NICHD postdoctoral fellow)

  2. University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

    Paul R. Voss (professor of rural sociology)

  3. The University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA

    Roger B. Hammer (assistant professor of rural sociology and land-use specialist)

  4. University of Wisconsin-Extension, USA

    Roger B. Hammer (assistant professor of rural sociology and land-use specialist)

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  1. U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Washington, DC, USA

    William A. Kandel

  2. Department of Development Sociology, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, USA

    David L. Brown

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Voss, P.R., Curtis White, K.J., Hammer, R.B. (2006). Explorations in Spatial Demography. In: Kandel, W.A., Brown, D.L. (eds) Population Change and Rural Society. The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis, vol 16. Springer, Dordrecht . https://doi.org/10.1007/1-4020-3902-6_19

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