A multiregional econometric model evaluates the impacts of changes in monetary policy on economic development in … metropolitan and nonmetropolitan parts of each of the four principal U S Census regions Regional variations in the adaptation to a … change in national monetary policy depend on a specific region's economic structure Nonmetro regions are generally less …

Comparisons of successive frequency distributions may be made in two distinct ways that are frequently confused. One … frequency distributions-the quartiles, deciles, or similar scale orderings. Such scale orderings, in effect, adjust the class …

policymakers in determining degrees of rural development. The Guttman scale of structural differentiation, derived from Dun and …. Valid, stable scales of differentiation can be built from secondary data sources and may help in research. They must be … further refined in terms of their relationship with population size and density, economic growth, and individual quality of …

idea of the differences that exist between farmers' living standards and those of nonfarmers at any one point in time. But … addressed to item 5. In other words, after obtaining measures of income for both farm and nonfarm populations, and adjusting … further adjustment in the basic income estimates to translate them into comparable measures of living stan,dards? This is the …

other social and economic characteristics, in a rural developm~nt indicator system. This paper shows that estimates of … disaggregation of variables used in the analysis is varied. Nine delineations and 12 characteristics were used to examine the …