Explorations in Spatial Demography

Paul R. Voss, Katherine J. Curtis White and Roger B. Hammer
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Paul R. Voss: University of Wisconsin-Madison
Katherine J. Curtis White: University of Wisconsin-Madison, The Center for Demography and Ecology
Roger B. Hammer: The University of Wisconsin-Madison

Chapter Chapter 19 in Population Change and Rural Society, 2006, pp 407-429 from Springer

Abstract: Summary and Conclusions 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.

Keywords: Ordinary Little Square; Geographic Information System; Spatial Autocorrelation; Great Plain; Spatial Process (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006
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DOI: 10.1007/1-4020-3902-6_19

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