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	Canadian Rural Information Service - What is the population of rural Canada?
		This is based on a definition of rural areas as "sparsely populated lands lying outside urban areas" or in other words those areas with a population concentration of less than 1,000 and a population density of up to 400 per square kilometre.
		Rural areas adjacent to cities gained population due to in-migration but rural areas non-adjacent to cities lost population due to out-migration.
		Rural regions have a higher share of young persons under 20 years of age and a much lower share of people in the 20 to 39 age group.
	www.rural.gc.ca /cris/faq/pop_e.phtml (390 words)

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		The urban and rural classification cuts across the other hierarchies; for example, there is generally both urban and rural territory within both metropolitan and nonmetropolitan areas.
		Documentation of the urbanized area and extended city criteria is available from the Chief, Geography Division, U.S. Bureau of the Census, Washington, DC 20233.
		For the 1970, 1980, and 1990 censuses, the Census Bureau identified as rural such territory and its population and housing units for each extended city whose closely settled area was located in an urbanized area.
	www.census.gov /population/censusdata/urdef.txt (879 words)

	Our Rural Transportation System - Planning for Transportation in Rural Areas - FHWA
		In practice, the U.S. Department of Transportation defines rural in two ways: first, for highway functional classification and outdoor advertising regulations, rural is considered anything outside of an area with a population of 5,000; second, for planning purposes, rural is considered to be areas outside of metropolitan areas 50,000 or greater in population.
		Rural transportation is essential not only for connecting people to jobs, health care, and family in a way that enhances their quality of life, but also for contributing to regional economic growth and development by connecting business to customers, goods to markets, and tourists to destinations.
		Rural areas with growth needs, or where there are needs for expansion or major reconstruction (whether for new industries, large-scale agricultural facilities, or other needs), are having difficulty funding these projects.
	www.fhwa.dot.gov /planning/rural/planningfortrans/2ourrts.html (6489 words)

	Health Focus 6/2001
		Rural areas are poorer than urban areas, and the more isolated the rural area, the greater the degree of poverty.
		Rural residents must have some ability to shape the system that provides their care, or remote health care organizations may design systems that are not responsive to the rural people they serve.
		Rural hospitals are often the largest or second largest employer in the towns where they are based, and research shows that the health sector provides 10 to 15 percent of jobs in rural communities.
	www.afscme.org /publications/health_focus/focus601.htm (4934 words)

	CORK Bibliography: Rural
		Results indicate that rural and urban centers were similar in their increasing provision of inpatient psychiatric levels of care and their decreasing offering of more intensive levels of chemical dependency services between 1995 and 2001.
		Rural and urban centers were increasingly likely to offer specialty treatment tracks for women, adolescents, clients with HIV/AIDS, and relapsing clients over time, but rural centers were less likely to offer a treatment track tailored to substance-abusing women.
		The use of treatment innovations was similar at rural and urban treatment centers with the exception of lesser use of acupuncture at rural centers.
	www.projectcork.org /bibliographies/data/Bibliography_Rural.html (9686 words)

	Underage Drinking in Rural Areas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Underage persons in rural areas reported a slightly higher rate of binge alcohol use than those in nonrural areas (21 percent vs. 19 percent), though this difference was not statistically significant.
		The prevalence of past month alcohol use was higher in rural than nonrural areas for youths in age groups 12 or 13, 14 or 15, and 16 or 17 (Table 1).
		Youths in rural areas were less likely than youths in nonrural areas to strongly disapprove of someone their own age having one or more drinks nearly every day or to report that their parents would strongly disapprove if he or she were to have one or more drinks nearly every day (Figure 3).
	oas.samhsa.gov /2k4/ruralYouthAlc/ruralYouthAlc.htm (1799 words)

	EMS Services in Rural Areas
		In many rural areas, a rising aging population, increasing numbers of earlier discharges from hospitals and the closure of many hospitals are influencing a growing demand for emergency medical services.
		The relatively low volume of emergency calls in rural areas, in relation to the high overhead of keeping a prepared staff, leads to an abundance of EMS squads staffed by volunteers, and consequently, to a less stable and often poorly managed EMS organization.
		For example, rural EMS programs typically have a longer response time to emergency calls than do their urban counterparts due to poor roads and difficult terrain, sparse populations, long distances, limited telephone service, inadequate public education, and insufficient resources to support reliable radio communications or advanced emergency call systems.
	www.ncsl.org /programs/health/Forum/ruralems.htm (1947 words)

	Rural Areas Magnify "Digital Divide" (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		With regard to telephones, rural households are as well connected as urban households, and far better connected than those in central cities.
		Households in rural areas, for example, are less likely to access the Internet than are households in urban areas or central cities.
		While telephone penetration is generally high in rural areas, certain groups -- such as Black or Hispanic, low income, or less educated households -- are less likely to have telephone connections in rural areas.
	www.ntia.doc.gov /ntiahome/digitaldivide/factsheets/rural.htm (434 words)

	ROI Magazine - page four
		As the CATT Area Director for Chesterfield, Dillon and Marlboro Counties, three of South Carolina’s most rural, he sees everyday how the employment rate directly affects the lives and livelihoods of families in his corner of the state.
		In many cases, the entire economies of low-population areas are tied to a single company or single industry.
		What this means, says Crawford, is that when a business leaves a rural area, the employees left behind, who have skill sets specific to that business, are generally ill-prepared to adapt to new models of production, new technology, a new industry altogether or even to look for a job again.
	www.sctechsystem.com /roi/SUMMER04/page7.htm (684 words)

	Rural Areas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The Department does not intend to focus its infrastructure investment in Rural Areas, in terms of funding projects such as access roads, local road connections, and significant road and intersection improvements.
		“B” areas were areas within the town or settled areas, where development had occurred or was planned to occur.
		The Department evaluated a variety of transportation investments in these areas, including the construction of service roads, intersection improvements, minor shifts in alignment, and providing alternative access through the use of existing secondary roads.
	www.propertyrightsresearch.org /rural_areas.htm (988 words)

	Rape May Be Most Common in Rural Areas
		In many rural areas, if a woman parks her car at a rape-crisis center or sheriff's office, word can quickly spread through the community, according to the report.
		While rural areas overall may have lower reporting rates, Alaska's rates are more than double the U.S. average.
		Alaska's rates may be higher than the norm for rural areas, but even those statistics don't reflect the complete picture, Maio said.
	www.womensenews.org /article.cfm/dyn/aid/1534/context/cover (1225 words)

	Mental Health in Rural Areas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Mental health is an important component of rural health that has become a priority for policymakers, communities, federal officials, researchers, health care providers and others.
		Two sets of challenges exist in providing rural mental health services: those associated with the provision of rural health care and those associated with the provision of mental or behavioral health care in general.
		Nationwide, suicide rates in rural areas are greater than in urban areas.
	www.ncsl.org /programs/health/rurment.htm (349 words)

	Health care in rural areas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In return students send written reports to the Director of the RSN highlighting problems in the areas they visited, and their recommendations for the upliftment of the areas.
		The RSN was launched in light of the lack of adequate health care in rural areas at a meeting of SAMSA's General Assembly at UCT at the end of last year.
		The first batch of students was posted to rural clinics during the summer vacation at the end of last year.
	web.uct.ac.za /depts/dpa/monpaper/97-no14/rsn.htm (339 words)

	BBC News \| SCI/TECH \| Sky-high broadband for rural areas
		Rural areas in south-east England could soon be getting access to the internet via satellite broadband.
		As part of a regeneration plan for isolated areas, the development agency that looks after the south-east is offering 300 grants to help pay the annual bill for high-speed satellite net access.
		Seeda was set up in April 1999 as one of nine English regional development agencies to improve the quality of home and business life in their part of the country.
	news.bbc.co.uk /hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_1974000/1974740.stm (507 words)

	Rural Electrification (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In 1935 the Rural Electric Administration (REA) was created to bring electricity to rural areas like the Tennessee Valley.
		Rural electrification was based on the belief that affordable electricity would improve the standard of living and the economic competitiveness of the family farm.
		Rural electrification did not halt the continuing migration of rural people from the country to the city.
	newdeal.feri.org /tva/tva10.htm (500 words)

	USDA Rural Development Home Page
		Rural Development Under Secretary Tom Dorr announced a $16 million loan guarantee to help finance construction of an electrical generating plant in rural Arizona that will use wildfire-damaged timber along with waste fiber from a nearby paper mill as a fuel source.
		Rural Development Under Secretary Dorr announced an agreement with the Arkansas Land and Farm Development Corporation to establish an outreach and service center to assist minority farmers.
		Rural Development Deputy Under Secretary Johnson recently joined U.S. Senator Wayne Allard in Fort Morgan, Colorado to present ceremonial checks totaling over $26 million in loan and grant funding to several Northeast Colorado entities, including $24.5 million to finance construction of a new hospital in Yuma.
	www.rurdev.usda.gov (541 words)

	Rural areas face 20-year wait for broadband - ZDNet UK News
		BT's chairman told the parliamentary select committee for Culture, Media and Sport on Tuesday that rural areas could be forced to wait between 10 and 20 years before they are offered high-speed Internet services, unless the UK government makes a significant financial contribution.
		Sir Christopher Bland insisted that it simply is not economically viable for BT to roll out ADSL to parts of Britain that are sparsely populated -- both today and in the next few years.
		BT is currently operating satellite broadband services in parts of Scotland and Northern Ireland, and Earnshaw suggested this technology could prove commercially viable in the future.
	news.zdnet.co.uk /communications/0,39020336,2103764,00.htm (815 words)

	War On Want : Rural Areas : Introduction
		In rural areas, land is essential to people’s survival.
		But more action is needed if rural poverty is to be eradicated.
		We support rural workers in their struggle to obtain education about their rights, and to gain the skills needed to press for better working conditions.
	www.waronwant.org /?lid=108 (230 words)

	Transportation Services in Rural Areas
		Rural and specialized transit safety hearing before the Subcommittee on Investigations and Oversight of the Committee on Public Works and Transportation, House of Representatives, One Hundredth Congress, first session, November 5, 1987.
		Rural highway finance federal funding for interstate and noninterstate highways in rural areas..
		Abstract: A 12-month study to assess the possibility of a correlation between the provision of transportation and the effectiveness of a WIC program in a rural area is reported; the study was based on a rural transportation model for improving WIC client participation using existing agency vehicles.
	www.nal.usda.gov /ric/ricpubs/qb9402.html (12568 words)

	Dynamics of Rural Areas
		The Arkleton Centre for Rural Development Research http://www.abdn.ac.uk/arkleton/ is co-ordinating a 2-year international comparative research project entitled "Dynamics of Rural Areas (DORA)".
		The basic hypothesis is that the differential development of rural areas can be explained by a combination of ‘tangible’ and ‘less tangible’ factors and the way in which these interact in specific national, regional and local contexts.
		Therefore, despite their differences in terms of economic performance, the study areas share a range of contextual circumstances, including geography and policy.
	www.abdn.ac.uk /arkleton/doradocs/index.shtml (985 words)

	Health Plan Choice in Rural Areas
		For example, if a rural county has members enrolling in three plans, that does not mean there are only three plans available; there may be many more.
		Commercial HMOs were not available at all in 7 percent of rural counties, and at least one plan was available in 14 percent.
		Choice among two to nine plans was available in 77 percent of rural counties, while choice among 10 or more plans was available in only 2 percent.
	www.heritage.org /Research/HealthCare/wm275.cfm (775 words)

	Rural Areas (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		The areas that have no people living nearby look very much the same as here, except for some different plants, like bamboo.
		When you get into a rural area with farms, there are probably two things that you will notice as most different.
		This is a fairly rural community by Japanese standards (population around 50,000).
	japan.lisd.k12.mi.us /resources/jumppages/ruralareas.html (258 words)

	Mardi Gras in Rural Acadiana
		Mardi Gras in rural Southwestern Louisiana draws on traditions that are centuries old.
		The human impulse that underlies Mardi Gras has not diminished today, even if some of the traditions lapsed for decades and even if one factor in their revival by subsequent generations was a desire to enhance tourism.
		In all of the Mardi Gras runs in rural Acadiana today, the capitaine maintains control over the Mardi Gras, as the riders are known.
	www.lsue.edu /acadgate/mardmain.htm (1150 words)

	Small towns in fast lane \| CNET News.com
		Although the numbers remain small, high-speed Internet services are beginning to take off in rural areas and small cities where industry experts once questioned whether demand would exist and communications carriers would ever install the technologies.
		The targeting of rural markets and small cities, of course, is not based solely on altruism.
		In rural Montana, far from the national policy debates in Washington, Nemont's Watson remains hopeful.
	news.com.com /2009-1033-242432.html?legacy=cnet (1355 words)

	Rural Areas
		Despite global trends toward increasing urbanization, rural areas still play a critical role in supporting sustainable societies.
		Traditionally, rural communities have been the originators and protectors of both culture and the environment.
		You may also be interested in visiting the sections on the agrifoods industry and livelihoods.
	sdgateway.net /topics/57.htm (202 words)

	WCA's - Rural Broadband
		To advance broadband rural deployment in the United States by means of wireless broadband options, either as stand-alone networks or as components of hybrid systems.
		WCA, Rural Broadband Task Force Members Fight To Save RUS Broadband Loan Funding
		FCC Rural Broadband Round-Up Meets With Texas PUC Commissioner
	www.wcai.com /rural (717 words)

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