TY - JOUR
T1 - Changes in service provision in rural areas. Part 2
T2 - Changes in post office provision in mid Wales: A GIS-based evaluation
AU - White, S. D.
AU - Guy, C. M.
AU - Higgs, G.
N1 - Funding Information:
Acknowledgements -- We would like to thank Post Office Counters for providing us with information on the names and locations of post offices in Wales, the Welsh Consumer Council for permission to use Post Office data collated in the late 1970s and Chris Cole for data entry. All census data are Crown Copyright and have been provided through the Census Microdata Unit of the University of Manchester with the support of ESRC/JISC/ DENI. The Rural Deprivation Project is sponsored by the ESRC (Grant No: R000221827). All interpretations of the data are those of the authors alone and do not necessarily reflect those of the agencies listed above.
PY - 1997
Y1 - 1997
N2 - This paper develops themes set out in Part 1 of this paper relating to the importance of public service provision in rural areas, particularly for potentially vulnerable members of the community such as the elderly, unemployed and single parents. Changes in a key service sector, post office services, in rural mid Wales over a 15-year period are assessed and analysed in relation to the developing socio-demographic profile of the underlying population. A Geographic Information System (GIS) approach is adopted to chart changing levels of post office provision in the study area, and the subsequent impacts on accessibility to those post offices. The policy significance of developing measures of accessibility to services with a view to incorporating these GIS-generated measures into traditional area-based indicators of disadvantage is highlighted.
AB - This paper develops themes set out in Part 1 of this paper relating to the importance of public service provision in rural areas, particularly for potentially vulnerable members of the community such as the elderly, unemployed and single parents. Changes in a key service sector, post office services, in rural mid Wales over a 15-year period are assessed and analysed in relation to the developing socio-demographic profile of the underlying population. A Geographic Information System (GIS) approach is adopted to chart changing levels of post office provision in the study area, and the subsequent impacts on accessibility to those post offices. The policy significance of developing measures of accessibility to services with a view to incorporating these GIS-generated measures into traditional area-based indicators of disadvantage is highlighted.
U2 - 10.1016/S0743-0167(97)00031-4
DO - 10.1016/S0743-0167(97)00031-4
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:0031445275
SN - 0743-0167
VL - 13
SP - 451
EP - 465
JO - Journal of Rural Studies
JF - Journal of Rural Studies
IS - 4
ER -