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Title: The Demography of Rural Latin America: The Case of Chile

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Publication Year: 2012

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Abstract: The most recent century witnessed deep and rapid demographic change in Latin America characterized by rapid population increase owing to the demographic transition, and urbanization resulting from industrialization, immigration, and rural-to-urban migration. Our purpose here was to provide an entre into the rural demography of Latin America by focusing on one of the regions more demographically advanced, urban and prosperous nations, Chile. Analyzing data from the 2006 National Socioeconomic Characterization Survey we show that the 13% of Chileans who live in rural areas differ from their urban counterparts in important ways. Rural adults are more likely to be married and to cohabit, and to be elderly and residentially stable. Socioeconomically, rural residents have lower incomes, higher rates of illiteracy, and lower educational achievement. They are less attached to the formal labor force, and more likely employed in agriculture. Rural residents have less access to public utilities, fewer material possessions and less cultural capital. Future research needs to focus on several of the issues our descriptive analyses spotlight, notably rural economic disadvantage, rural-to-urban migration, and rural marriage and family.

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Authors: Ader, David; Jensen, Leif

Periodical (Full): International Handbook of Rural Demography

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Volume: 3

Pages: 95-110

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