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The
Role of Spatial Analysis in Demographic Research
John R. Weeks
Abstract
A general framework is proposed for the
application of spatial analysis to demographic research as
a way of integrating and better understanding the different
transitional components of the overall demographic transition
– the epidemiological transition, the fertility transition,
the migration transition, urban transition, the age transition,
and the family and household transition. This framework is
discussed in the context of a review of the still relatively
sparse literature on spatial analysis in demography. The discussion
then turns to the kinds of data that are required for spatial
demographic analysis, the kinds of statistical approaches
that are available to researchers, and the way in which GIS
can help to integrate each of these components for the testing
of theories and building of models. The chapter concludes
with an example of this type of research, drawing upon the
author’s study, which is aimed at an improved understanding
of the Arab fertility transition through the testing of explicitly
spatial theories about the timing and tempo of fertility change.
Specifically, this research applies GIS, remote sensing, and
spatial statistics to the fertility transition in rural and
urban Egypt.
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