The revised ERS county typology : an overview / Peggy J. Cook ; Karen L. Mizer.

Format:

Book

Government document

Author/Creator:

Cook, Peggy J., author.

Mizer, Karen L., author.

Contributor:

United States. Department of Agriculture. Economic Research Service, issuing body.

Series:

Rural development research report ; no. 89.

Rural development research report ; number 89

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Counties--United States--Classification.

Counties.

Rural industries--Social aspects--United States--States--Classification.

Rural industries.

Rural population--Economic aspects--United States--States--Classification.

Rural population.

Rural industries--Social aspects--U.S. states.

Rural population--Economic aspects--U.S. states.

United States.

Genre:

technical reports.

Technical reports

Reference works

Classification

Technical reports.

Reference works.

Physical Description:

1 online resource ([4], 48 pages) : illustrations (some color).

Other Title:

Revised Economic Research Service county typology : an overview

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : United States Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, [1994]

Summary:

This report describes an expanded and revised version of the Economic Research Service's 1979 classification of nonmetro counties, commonly called the ERS typology. The classification has been widely used by researchers, policy analysts, and public officials as a source of information about the economic and social diversity characterizing rural America. The revised typology classifies counties designated as nonmetro in 1993 into one of six nonoverlapping types that indicate the county's primary economic activity: farming-dependent, mining-dependent, manufacturing-dependent, government-dependent, services-dependent, and nonspecialized. The revised typology also classifies counties according to five other overlapping types with special relevancy for rural policy: retirement-destination, Federal lands, commuting, persistent poverty, and transfers-dependent. This analysis focuses on the distributions of nonmetro counties across the types and provides brief economic and sociodemographic profiles for each type. Particular attention is given to population and economic changes during the 1980's.

Contents:

Preface

Highlights : ERS typology depicts rural diversity

Introduction : revising the ERS typology

Economic type

Policy type

Appendix. Data, definitions, and procedures ; Tables.

Notes:

Title from title screen (viewed September 5, 2014).

"December 1994."

Includes bibliographical references (page 28).

Electronic reproduction. [Place of publication not identified] : HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011.

Other Format:

Print version: Cook, Peggy J. Revised ERS County typology

Microfiche version: Cook, Peggy J. Revised ERS county typology

OCLC:

890021886

Access Restriction:

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