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Download full textHewitt, Maria – 1989
The 'rural' definitions applied by the Federal Government, especially by two data-gathering agencies, the Bureau of the Census and the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), emphasize different dimensions of the concept, and delineate the rural-urban continuum in different ways. This report discusses the inconsistency of curent "rural"…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Data Collection, Definitions, Federal Government
