The determinants of female activity rates in rural areas
An analysis of Norfolk parishes
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10407374 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Malcolm J Moseley (University of East Anglia, corresponding author), Jane Darby (University of East Anglia) |
| Year | 1978 |
| Volume | 12 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 297-309 |
| Publication date | 1978-06-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Regional Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0034-3404 • E-ISSN: 1360-0591 |
| Publisher | Routledge (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/09595237800185251 |
| OpenAlex | W1981964504 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 14 |
| References cited | 10 |
Moseley M. J. and Darby J. (1978) The determinants of female activity rates in rural areas: an analysis of Norfolk parishes, Reg. Studies 12, 297–309. Rural Britain still has significantly lower female activity rates than do the urban and suburban areas. The central issue, which this paper explores, concerns whether this reflects variations in the opportunity for women to work, or in their desire to work. ‘Opportunity’ factors include industrial and occupational structure and physical accessibility. ‘Desire’ factors arise from the social, cultural and familial environment within which women live. For the first time, ward library data from the 1971 census allow a fine-grained spatial analysis, and attention is focused upon the rural parishes of Norfolk. Parish-level data relating to female activity rates and to potentially explanatory variables are subjected to multiple regression analysis. Levels of explanation are low but demographic and ‘opportunities’ factors emerge as significant. Improved opportunities of a ‘work to the workers’ nature constitute a possible policy. Keywords: Female activity ratesRural areasNorfolkMultiple regression analysisEmployment opportunitiesAccessibility Additional informationNotes on contributorsJane Darby The authors are grateful to the Nuffield Foundation for a small grant which enabled Ms Darby to perform much of the statistical work and incidentally to cause a marginal increase in the Norwich f.a.r. in the summer of 1975
Census · Demographic economics · Economics · Geography · Political science · Population · Regional science · Regression analysis · Rural area · Socioeconomics · Sociology · Statistics · Work (physics · Demography · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Rural development and sustainability · Work-Family Balance Challenges
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| Citations per year | 0.3 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1979 - 2010 (32) |
| Highly cited | No |