• The purpose of this study was to describe crash characteristics of fatal MVCs and to determine which crash characteristics are related to population density. (nih.gov)
  • Rural areas are not homogenous in terms of fatal MVC crash characteristics. (nih.gov)
  • By analyzing fatal MVC crash characteristics in regions with different population densities, many crash variables were found to be related to population density. (nih.gov)
  • By understanding which characteristics about fatal MVCs are related to population densities, different interventions could be targeted to different rural populations. (nih.gov)
  • The result of transforming unit level data into quantitative measures for a set of characteristics of a population. (unwto.org)
  • A census is the complete enumeration of a population or groups at a point in time with respect to well defined characteristics: for example, Population, Production, Traffic on particular roads. (unwto.org)
  • A scientific team from Freie Universität Berlin, the University of Greifswald, the Leibniz Institute of Freshwater Ecology and Inland Fisheries (IGB) and the Leibniz Institute for Zoo and Wildlife Research (Leibniz-IZW) now investigated which characteristics are typical for urban and rural bats. (eurekalert.org)
  • Census tracts are small, relatively permanent subdivisions of a county that are defined by the U.S. Census Bureau in conjunction with local authorities all across the country to define real neighborhoods that are bounded to contain areas with homogeneous population characteristics (including economic status, lifestyle, and living conditions). (neighborhoodscout.com)
  • Rural populations have different characteristics that are typically a direct result of "rurality" - i.e., long distances and low population density. (cdc.gov)
  • School-To-Work Opportunities (See 20 USCS § 6251)], the term rural community with low population density means "a county, block number area in a nonmetropolitan county, or consortium of counties or of such block number areas, that has a population density of 20 or fewer individuals per square mile. (uslegal.com)
  • Along with the areas with dense population, there are also virtually unpopulated territories of tens of thousands square kilometers in area. (iwlearn.org)
  • Investments in infrastructure-such as Bangladesh's Jamuna Bridge-can help promote a structural transformation that increases economic specialization within rural areas and between cities and rural areas. (worldbank.org)
  • By 2050, the population of cities is projected to double from its current size, with nearly 70 percent of the global population residing in urban areas. (worldbank.org)
  • For many, cities are beacons of hope that offer the prospect of a better job or education, but a new body of research is highlighting how the complex interactions between cities, their surrounding rural areas, and structural transformation can make or break cities as engines of prosperity. (worldbank.org)
  • In Nepal, for instance, Shilpi found that the size of manufacturing firms in cities was on average no larger than in rural areas and these firms employed no more skilled managerial workers than those in rural areas. (worldbank.org)
  • Most of current definitions of rural are based on county boundaries, which results in substantial under and over bounding of urban areas (rural areas being lumped with large urban areas). (washington.edu)
  • Many current definitions are dichotomies and do not appropriately take into account the great variation across rural areas. (washington.edu)
  • The National Risk Factor Survey does not reflect what happens in rural areas. (scielo.org.pe)
  • The Argentine Republic has natural waters with As contents exceeding 0.05 mg/L, as established by the Argentine Food Code (CAA), with an exposed population of approximately 1 million inhabitants living in rural areas 4 . (scielo.org.pe)
  • Telecom companies often forget about rural areas because they don't have high population density. (eschoolnews.com)
  • Depopulation of rural areas by decreasing economic opportunity for working class people. (adirondackalmanack.com)
  • In 2010, for the first time, more people lived in urban than rural areas. (deloitte.com)
  • Saddled by legacy infrastructure and limited budgets, many urban areas are struggling to keep pace with increased populations and growing volumes of freight, often leading to increased congestion, lower quality of life, lost economic potential, and negative health outcomes. (deloitte.com)
  • Most of the Muslim population lives in rural areas and some high-density suburbs, with smaller numbers living in other suburban neighborhoods. (state.gov)
  • Some bat species reach particularly high population densities in cities, whereas they are rather rare in rural areas. (eurekalert.org)
  • Based on the traits and spatial data of 356 bat species worldwide (a quarter of the 1,400 bat species on our planet), the team determined whether the respective species tended to have a distribution focus on urban or rural areas. (eurekalert.org)
  • Of course, most bat species are positioned along a continuum that distinguishes urban-dwelling bat species from those that tended to live in rural areas," explains PD Dr Christian Voigt, head of the Department of Evolutionary Ecology at Leibniz-IZW. (eurekalert.org)
  • It has readily adapted to artificial feeders and flowering gardens in rural areas, but avoids heavily urbanized zones. (hummingbirdsplus.org)
  • While not globally threatened, localized habitat loss in certain areas puts pressure on hyacinth visorbearer populations. (hummingbirdsplus.org)
  • In urban areas, they are small, and in rural areas they can cover an entire small town or even a few small towns in very rural areas. (neighborhoodscout.com)
  • Approximately 88% of the Ugandan population live in rural areas. (bmj.com)
  • Property located in high population density areas are more likely served by a sanitary sewer system. (clemson.edu)
  • Moreover, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) Mission in Kosovo in its 2008 report on human rights reported water shortages, poor water infrastructure, and contamination of water sources especially in rural areas. (hindawi.com)
  • In urban areas characterized by high population density, vaccination teams visit many families, vaccinating upwards of 300+ children per day. (cdc.gov)
  • Similarly, in low-density, remote or conflict areas, or in areas where administrative boundaries may be disputed, it is not always clear in what particular administrative jurisdiction a given village or cluster of homes may lie. (cdc.gov)
  • Rural Canada is competitive in manufacturing - rural areas are gaining a larger share of Canada's manufacturing workforce. (cdc.gov)
  • Conclusion: Hearing disability disparities in the U.S. exist for males, selected racial/ethnic groups, impoverished (Appalachia) and low-density rural geographic areas. (cdc.gov)
  • Households with adequate total/partial nutritional quality available by area were found to spend, on average, USD 2.00 more in urban than in rural areas and, by year, they presented 7.1% more percentage of food expenditure in 2020 than in 2019. (bvsalud.org)
  • The average household size is 4.7 people, with 80% of the population living in rural areas. (who.int)
  • Although COCOMO-recommended strategies and measures are well-suited for urban areas, they may need to be adapted for use in rural areas. (cdc.gov)
  • Research to establish the social determinates of these risk factors and interventions to reduce both individual and population risk are required. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Prevalence of hearing disability was estimated from the 2012-2016 ACS by sex, age, race/ ethnicity, the economically-depressed Appalachian area, and the 2013 NCHS Urban-Rural County Classification. (cdc.gov)
  • Dengue is a fast emerging mosquito-borne viral 2013 to 328 per 100 000 population in 2016. (who.int)
  • The core of this direction is the Selenga Valley, where an area with a highly dense population has formed between Ulaanbaatar and Ulan-Ude. (iwlearn.org)
  • Illegal capture of wild hummingbirds for the domestic and international pet markets can negatively impact local populations. (hummingbirdsplus.org)
  • The population density of the Baikal basin is 17 times lower than the world's average of 53 persons/km 2 . (iwlearn.org)
  • The food system typology covers 155 countries and 97% of the world's population, with 30-32 countries in each category 10 , as illustrated in Supplementary Fig. 1 . (nature.com)
  • Just over a year ago (December 10, 2018), we reached the milestone of roughly half of the world's population having access to the Internet-nearly thirty years since the Internet was made publicly available. (astc.org)
  • But lower living costs mean that the rural incidence of low incomes is similar to urban. (cdc.gov)
  • 9 The public incidence doubled from 146 per 100 000 population in health-care system is mainly financed through taxation a Clinical Research Centre, Dermatology Block, Hospital Kuala Lumpur, Jalan Pahang, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. (who.int)
  • The population maps focus on current patterns of the settlement and demographic situation in the Baikal basin. (iwlearn.org)
  • Also important were the data from population censuses of Russia and Mongolia and the data of the current measurements of demographic events. (iwlearn.org)
  • Method The authors conducted a nationwide assessment of the association between socio-demographic US Census indicators and the density of tobacco outlets across all 64 909 census tracts in the continental USA. (who.int)
  • Urban-rural differences in the relation between demographics and TOD were found in all socio-demographic categories, with the exception of poverty, but were particularly striking for Hispanics, for whom the relation with TOD was 10 times larger in urban compared with rural census tracts. (who.int)
  • Using a multidisciplinary approach we aimed to assess the prevalence of several vascular risk factors in Agincourt, a rural demographic surveillance site in South Africa. (biomedcentral.com)
  • According to the 2015 nationwide Demographic and Health Survey conducted by the government statistics agency, 86 percent of the population is Christian, 11 percent reports no religious affiliation, less than 2 percent adheres uniquely to traditional beliefs, and less than 1 percent is Muslim. (state.gov)
  • This paper reviews the key demographic, employment, income, and social capital features of rural Canada. (cdc.gov)
  • Isserman Urban-Rural Density Typology (county-based). (washington.edu)
  • This typology has five categories: (1) rural and traditional, (2) informal and expanding, (3) emerging and diversifying, (4) modernizing and formalizing, and (5) industrial and consolidated. (nature.com)
  • The main clusters of rural population are located in the forest-steppe and steppe zones, where the density of population may reach 10-20 persons/km 2 . (iwlearn.org)
  • Objective To elucidate how demographics of US Census tracts are related to tobacco outlet density (TOD). (who.int)
  • Because census tracts are based on population, they vary in size depending on the density of settlement. (neighborhoodscout.com)
  • Over the past 50 years, food systems worldwide have shifted from predominantly rural to industrialized and consolidated systems, with impacts on diets, nutrition and health, livelihoods, and environmental sustainability. (nature.com)
  • A proportional allocation gridding algorithm, utilizing more than 1,000,000 national and sub-national geographic units, is used to assign population values to grid cells. (ciesin.org)
  • The ZIP code version of the RUCAs provides a sub-county alternative rural/urban taxonomy that uses a geographic unit (ZIP code area) that is readily available on many health care data sets. (washington.edu)
  • A significant increase in number of health workforce has occurred over the population) (2015) last decade, however imbalance in capacities, gender, as wel as geographic distribution is stil evident. (who.int)
  • The four pillars of polio eradication all rely on "microplans"- detailed logistical blueprints that guide the planning and implementation of vaccination campaigns, routine immunization outreach, and surveillance for polio cases by providing critical data on the size and location of the target population in a given geographic area. (cdc.gov)
  • The Global Rural-Urban Mapping Project, Version 1 (GRUMPv1): Population Density Grid estimates population per square km for the years 1990, 1995, and 2000 by 30 arc-second (1km) grid cells and associated data sets dated circa 2000. (ciesin.org)
  • Chinese State Administration for Industry and Commerce (SAIC) firm registration data reveal that two-thirds of new entrepreneurs originated from rural counties. (nber.org)
  • Firm revenue, total factor productivity, and export revenue all grow more quickly for firms based in counties with higher population density. (nber.org)
  • In 2013, the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS) revised and updated their Urban-Rural Classification Scheme of Counties, based on population density, to examine health disparities. (cdc.gov)
  • The purpose of this article is to present a community-driven, COCOMO-guided approach to identifying winnable local policy strategies for obesity prevention in 2 largely rural counties in eastern North Carolina. (cdc.gov)
  • Evolving rural economies, urbanization and changes in food value chains have accompanied these transitions, leading to changes in land distribution, a smaller share of agri-food system workers in the economy and changes in diets. (nature.com)
  • This categorization is based on the agricultural value added per worker, dietary change as reflected by the share of dietary energy from staple grains and cereals, urbanization, and supermarket density, which are all closely related to economic growth. (nature.com)
  • The U.S. government estimates the total population at 14.5 million (midyear 2020 estimate). (state.gov)
  • Three largest cities of the country and more than a half of its population are located in this area. (iwlearn.org)
  • According to Shilpi, all cities share certain common features: higher population density, a predominance of non-agricultural activities, a high degree of labor specialization, and a diverse set of economic activities. (worldbank.org)
  • Accurate figures are hard to come by, but it is likely that at least forty-and by some accounts up to seventy percent-of the population in cities is engaged in this informal economy of survival. (counterpunch.org)
  • From an agricultural country, Brazil became rapidly industrialized, which resulted in large rural exodus and explosion of population density in major cities. (bvsalud.org)
  • 14.94 births/1,000 population (2023 est. (theodora.com)
  • The Agincourt sub-district is in South Africa's rural north-east, adjacent to Mozambique, where the Wits/MRC (Agincourt) Rural Public Health and Health Transitions Research Unit has been monitoring causes of death, births and migration in a population of around 70 000 people since 1992[ 14 ]. (biomedcentral.com)
  • Additional privacy constraints apply to infant mortality statistics for infant age groups and live births denominator population figures. (cdc.gov)
  • While there are no reliable statistics regarding the percentage of the Christian population that is syncretic, many Christians also associate themselves with traditional practices, and religious leaders reported a continued increase in syncretism. (state.gov)
  • Therefore, we selected Kawempe division, one of the five geopolitical divisions of Kampala city, and Mukono, a rural district in southern Uganda for this study. (bmj.com)
  • The variables related to lower population density were more light and heavy truck types, more frequent alcohol use and higher levels of intoxication, more frequent crashes that are noncollisions on less heavily traveled roads, more frequent crashes on gravel surface types, more frequent occupant ejection, and delayed medical care. (nih.gov)
  • Results In a multivariate analysis, there was a higher TOD per 1000 population in urban than in rural locations. (who.int)
  • The urban population is at a higher risk than the rural population, and the patterns of injury differ. (bmj.com)
  • The Chinese and urban populations showed significantly higher use of the private health-care sector with an adjusted odds ratio of 4.8 [95% confidence interval (CI): 4.6-5.1] and 2.3 (95% CI: 2.2-2.4), respectively. (who.int)
  • The population count grids are divided by the land area grid to produce population density grids. (ciesin.org)
  • As of December 2022[update] Aleksandrów Kujawski has an area of 7.23 km2 (2.79 sq mi) and a population of 11,536. (wikipedia.org)
  • A successful model in a rural area may be to establish a cholera treatment facility centrally with ORPs in each of the villages in the facility's catchment area. (cdc.gov)
  • Property located outside of city limits or in a rural area are more likely to depend on existing septic system or in need of installing a new one. (clemson.edu)
  • The aim of this study was to assess the relationship between nutritional quality available and total food expenditure in Peruvian households, and whether there were differences by area (urban and rural) and between years of the COVID-19 pandemic. (bvsalud.org)
  • The number of inpatient beds available relative to the total population for the same geographical area. (who.int)
  • The total population for the same geographical area. (who.int)
  • rates of chronic lung conditions among the older adult population to We found significant associations between town-level factors and provide more testing and access to vaccinations. (cdc.gov)
  • The intra-regional differentiation of settlement patterns is stipulated by several spatial gradients of the population density decrease, with the main gradient leading from the center (capitals and administrative centers) to the periphery. (iwlearn.org)
  • Conservation science now recognizes that the spatial pattern is at least as important as the density of development and that subdividing land into "substantial acreages" is ecologically damaging. (adirondackalmanack.com)
  • Can conservation design stop rural sprawl in the Adirondack Park? (adirondackalmanack.com)
  • Along with mandating conservation design, why not offer the developer a 10 percent bonus of extra lots/units beyond the APA's density limitations? (adirondackalmanack.com)
  • Population figures are also suppressed when the population represents fewer than ten persons. (cdc.gov)
  • There is a great possibility to tap into traditional (statistics, other surveys and the quantitative digital data) and non-traditional (crowed sourced, or collective intelligence) data that would essentially lead us to acquire new knowledge, and more importantly, look at wider landscapes, whole population, and thematic intersections that are not covered with traditional datasets. (undp.org)
  • A quantitative optical density measure for IgG is also included in this data release. (cdc.gov)
  • About 12% of the population reside in small towns along a highway and the remainder is entirely rural. (bmj.com)
  • A recent study reported The Klang Val ey, with an estimated population of 7.9 mil- that both fatal and non-fatal dengue cases contributed lion in the state of Selangor, the Federal Territory of Kuala to 1.14 million disability-adjusted life years globally in Lumpur and the Federal Territory of Putrajaya in 2014, 2013. (who.int)
  • 2006. Determining Global Population Distribution: Methods, Applications and Data. (ciesin.org)
  • Methods: The ACS collects data from a rolling sample of 250,000 households each month on over 40 topics, including disability, in the civilian non-institutionalized U.S. population. (cdc.gov)
  • There is also a positive effect of lagged network size, and the interaction of network size with birth county population density, on firm revenues and productivity in both domestic production and exporting. (nber.org)
  • We show that if the approximate locations of an individual's home and workplace can both be deduced from a location trace, then the median size of the individual's anonymity set in the U.S. working population is 1, 21 and 34,980, for locations known at the granularity of a census block, census track and county respectively. (schneier.com)
  • Occupant fatality rates per 100,000 persons were inversely related to population density. (nih.gov)
  • The population density in the Russian part of the basin is 2.9 persons/km 2 , which is nine times lower than in the European part of Russia (26 persons/km 2 ). (iwlearn.org)
  • To provide a time series of raster population density data for data integration. (ciesin.org)
  • The population maps of the Baikal basin are based on the statistical data of the Federal State Statistics Service of the Russian Federation and National Statistical Office of Mongolia . (iwlearn.org)
  • The Multiple Cause of Death data available on WONDER are county-level national mortality and population data spanning the years 1999-2021. (cdc.gov)
  • Honduras had 385 confirmed cases in a total population of about 9.5 million. (counterpunch.org)
  • Nicaragua had 8 total confirmed cases, including 4 active, 1 death, and 3 recovered, out of a population of 6.7 million, the second lowest number of cases in Central America, after sparsely populated and much smaller Belize, but by April 14, Belize had surpassed Nicaragua in number of cases. (counterpunch.org)
  • Cellular phone penetration exceeds 50% of the population, and there are 1.818 million Internet users. (traveldocs.com)
  • The General Population Census of 2008 put Cambodia's population at 13.4 million by March 2008. (who.int)
  • Retail tobacco outlet addresses were determined through North American Industry Classification System codes, and density per 1000 population was estimated for each census tract. (who.int)
  • There are many rural and urban classification systems used for individual states (e.g. (washington.edu)
  • The RUCA Codes are a classification system that allows users to tailor the codes to their needs taking functional relationships, density, and population into account. (washington.edu)
  • 62 remain high, with approximately 1/3rd of the population living below the poverty line. (who.int)
  • This represented a significant structural transformation of the economy away from agriculture and traditional rural occupations into industrial entrepreneurship. (nber.org)
  • This interventional implementation study among 649 adults and children living in rural communities in Uganda, Vietnam and Kyrgyzstan, was performed after situational analyses and awareness programmes. (nature.com)
  • Agriculture employs 77% of the economically active populace, while groundnut cultivation (which in 1960 had provided 80% of Senegal's export earnings) engages about 10% of the population and is done on 50% of sown land in rotation with millet and sorghum. (traveldocs.com)
  • Driven by the demands of hunting, gathering and eventually pastoralism and agriculture, population densities remained low. (deloitte.com)
  • According to the survey, of the total population, 37 percent is Apostolic, 21 percent Pentecostal, 16 percent other Protestant, 7 percent Roman Catholic, and 5 percent other Christian. (state.gov)
  • Its population trend appears stable and it has a wide distribution across northern South America. (hummingbirdsplus.org)
  • Any new scientific findings and resources will be useful to Kosovo's authorities and researchers as they plan and construct future water monitoring institutions to provide efficient protective measures for its own population, as well as neighboring populations. (hindawi.com)
  • In addition, socioeconomic conditions may increase the susceptibility of the population to environmental toxicants 5 . (scielo.org.pe)
  • Objectives -To describe and contrast injury patterns in rural and urban Uganda. (bmj.com)
  • Mostly Christians with over 96% of the population belonging to the Anglican, Roman Catholic or Methodist Churches. (atlapedia.com)
  • Settings -One rural and one urban community in Uganda. (bmj.com)
  • Rural Uganda is characterized by subsistence farming, limited health care access, limited motorized transport, and a narrow range of economic activity. (bmj.com)
  • In which traits do urban species differ from rural species? (eurekalert.org)