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The aim of this article is to determine possibilities of performing typology of rural areas from the viewpoint of functions fulfilled by themThe analysis encompassed 288 rural administrative communes in 7 administrative provinces of Poland. The source materials come mainly from data provided by the National Census in 1978. With regard to some problems It was possible to present changes in functions performed by administrative communes over the years 1950-1978. The typology of these functions was performed on the basis of data concerning, first of all, the rural population’s employment and its sources of livelihood. Two approaches wore employed: a more general and a more detailed approach. In the former case, the share of population earning its living outside agriculture was a criterion in distinguishing between functional types of communes. This approach allowed to distinguish four functional types of administrative communes. In the latter case, a starting point was division of the employed according to three economic sectors. There were distinguished nine types of administrative communes with different employment combinations. The performed typology of rural areas revealed a very big differentiation of their functions. A prevailing part of all rural areas lost their agricultural character with a relatively greater role played there by non-agricultural functions. Transformations in functions performed by administrative communes were diversified with regard to their character and dynamics. This led to very big differentiation of rural areas both among administrative provinces and primarily within them. This involves very important consequences for provision of industrial goods and services for agriculture and for the population inhabiting these regions (or staying there temporarily). Such a situation calls, among others, for application of different solution in the field of provision of industrial and consumer goods and services for these regions.
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The article presents results of studies on location of the network of retail trade and consumer services with a special emphasis laid on its spatial concentration, demand for services and population's preferences as regards location of consumer goods and services purchases. Most data were provided by questionnaire surveys on rural population with an additional source of information being data coming from records of retail trade and service units in 12 analyzed administrative communes. The performed studies revealed a considerable underdevelopment of these spheres of activity in rural areas of Skierniewice administrative province. It is visible in many aspects out of which there should be mentioned, first of all absence or big quantitative disproportions in spatial distribution of retail and service network, shortcomings in location of the network as regards its types of units and branch structure. In many cases it leads to restriction of demand (especially for consumer services) or poses big difficulties in satisfaction of this demand oftentimes exposing consumers to many difficulties, waste of their time, and additional costs. In the final part of the article, the authors formulated several conclusions concerning desirable directions of operation of economic units in conditions of the economic crisis, and especially as regards rural trade cooperatives.
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