Differentiation of rural areas in Kainuu, Finland
Abstract
The aim is to examine areal differences in development at the regional and local levels employing migration as the chief indicator. In order to obtain a classification of the municipalities and their internal structure a model for migration within a municipality is constructed, based on the notion that the relations between migration flows alter with time as the municipality or area concerned undergoes the processes of agglomeration of population and modernization. The material on which the survey is based consists of change of address registration data for those moving permanently, a total of 54,606 events applying to the rural municipalities of Kainuu in 1980—85. Areal units at a lower level are obtained by considering the land register villages and the built-up area — rural area dimension. Grouping analysis is used as the multivariate method for processing the data.
