Population Types of Small Towns in Silesian Province

• Autorzy: Elżbieta Zuzańska-Żyśko
• Języki publikacji: EN

Abstrakty

EN

This paper shows demographic problems of small towns in the aspect of their economic structure. The analysis concerns population divided into three groups including preworking-age population, working-age population and postworking-age population. The proportions of individual age groups influence productive potential of towns, therefore an attempt was made to classify the towns studied using method of sign table and rank method. The first of these methods made it possible to distinguish 6 classes and finally 4 classes of population economic structure. They include the following groups: productive population, still productive population, productive ageing population and nonproductive population. Similar classification was obtained using the second method, where also 4 population groups were distinguished. Basing on the distinguished classes, three population types of small towns were distinguished. They include prodeveloping towns which show favourable percentage of individual age groups taking into account production potential; preservative type of intermediate structure; and nondeveloping type including centres of unfavourable age structure. (original abstract)

Słowa kluczowe

PL

Ludność; Miasto; Struktura demograficzna

EN

Population; City; Demographic structure

• Czasopismo: Bulletin of Geography. Socio-economic Series
• Rocznik: 2003
• Numer: No. 2
• Strony: 143--149

Twórcy

autor

Elżbieta Zuzańska-Żyśko

• University of Silesia in Katowice, Sosnowiec, Poland

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