TYPOLOGY OF RURAL COMMUNES OF ZACHODNIOPOMORSKIE PROVINCE PRESENTED FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF THE POPULATION'S DEVELOPMENT - FACTORS OF CHANGES

• Authors: Stanny-Burak M.
• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

EN

The aim of this paper is to establish the pace and directions of changes in the components of the rural population's real growth. In the preparation of the typology of communes the relations between the birth-rate and the balance of migrations have been taken into account, in accordance with Webb's method. It has been shown that in the 1990s there disappeared the monotonic character of the development of rural population of the region not covered yet by systemic transformation, which was reflected in the high birth-rate consumed by the high outflow of population in the result of migration. It was replaced by the development of diverse character which found expression in the large number of development types and a general downward tendency in the birth-rate and a considerable decline in spatial mobility. The pace of changes taking place in the rural areas of the Zachodniopomorskie province of Poland exceed the average dynamics for the whole country. Although the average real increase in the country's rural population is lower than that recorded in the province the main component of this increase is the balance of migrations. In the analysed region, however, the real increase in the population is largely attributable to the birth-rate since the balance of migrations is similar to that recorded in other regions of Poland. Undeniably the most significant demographic changes in the rural areas of Poland have been determined by the socio-economic situation that prevailed in the 1990s. The decline in the level of emigration from rural areas is even now largely determined by the economic situation and only to a minimal degree by decisions taken freely by individuals. The decline in the birth-rate cannot be seen exclusively as the result of the earlier recorded depopulation processes and the ageing of the rural population but also as the result of changes in the social sphere that lead to transformations described in the context of the concept of the second demographic transition.

Keywords

EN

BIRTH-RATE; DEMOGRAPHIC TRANSITION THEORY; MIGRATIONS; RURAL POPULATION'S DEVELOPMENT (POLAND)

Discipline

• SOCIOLOGY: SOCIOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Rural and Agricultural Development, Polish Academy of Sciences; www.irwirpan.waw.pl
• Journal: Wieś i Rolnictwo
• Year: 2006
• Issue: 3(132)
• Pages: 117-131
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Stanny-Burak M.

• M. Stanny-Burak, Politechnika Koszalinska, Wydzial Ekonomii i Zarzadzania, ul. E. Kwiatkowskiego 6e, 75-620 Koszalin, Poland

Identifiers

CEJSH db identifier

06PLAAAA01703691