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Jackson-Smith, Douglas B.; Jensen, Eric – Rural Sociology, 2009
Many scholars have commented on the changing significance of farming for understanding the dynamics of social and economic change in contemporary rural America. Quantitative analyses of relationships between farming, local socioeconomic conditions, demographic trends, and policy have often relied on an indicator of "farm-dependent" (FD) counties…
Descriptors: Economic Research, Geographic Distribution, Rural Areas, Economic Change