Does car ownership reflect socio-economic disadvantage in rural areas? A cross-sectional geographical study in Wales, UK
Does car ownership reflect socio-economic disadvantage in rural areas? A cross-sectional geographical study in Wales, UK
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DOI：
10.1016/s0033-3506(02)00027-6
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发表时间：
2003-03-01
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5.2
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Fone, DL
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作者：
Christie, SML;Fone, DL
人们普遍认为，包括汽车拥有量普查变量在内的基于地区的贫困指数是农村地区贫困的糟糕指标，因为拥有汽车是农村生活的必需品。在这项横断面地理研究中，我们评估了英国威尔士城市和农村人口普查地区之间汽车拥有率和社会经济贫困的关系是否有所不同。我们使用英国国家统计局基于土地使用的分类，将威尔士6376个人口普查地区分为农村(1636，26%)和城市(4740，74%)。在城市和人口最密集的农村地区，没有汽车的家庭比例与其他一系列代理剥夺人口普查变量之间的等级相关性很强，但在人口稀少的农村地区，这种相关性较弱，随着人口密度的增加，这种相关性呈下降趋势。将汽车拥有量变量从汤森德贫困指数中剔除与标准汤森德指数相比，农村地区被重新归类为更贫困，城市被列举地区被重新归类为贫困程度较低。我们的结果表明，在威尔士人口最稀少的农村地区，汽车拥有量并不能很好地反映社会贫困，因此，包括汽车拥有量变量的剥夺指数在农村地区的适用性较差。(C)2003年皇家公共卫生研究所。爱思唯尔科学有限公司出版。版权所有。
It is widely believed that area-based deprivation indices that include the car ownership census variable are poor indicators of deprivation in rural areas since car ownership is a necessity of rural life. In this cross-sectional geographical study, we assess whether the relation between Lack of car ownership and socio-economic deprivation varies between urban and rural enumeration districts of Wales, UK.We classified the 6376 census enumeration districts in Wales into rural (1636, 26%) and urban (4740, 74%), using the Office for National Statistics' classification based on land use. Rank correlation coefficients between the proportion of households with no car and a range of other proxy deprivation census variables were strongly positive in urban and the most densely populated rural enumeration districts, However, these correlations were weaker in sparsely populated rural enumeration districts, with a declining trend across deciles of population density. Exclusion of the car ownership variable from the Townsend index of deprivation re-categorized rural enumeration districts as more deprived and urban enumeration districts as Less deprived compared with the standard Townsend index. Our results suggest that tack of car ownership is a poor proxy for social deprivation in the most sparsely populated rural areas of Wales, and therefore, deprivation indices that include the car ownership variable are Less valid for use in rural areas. (C) 2003 The Royal Institute of Public Health. Published by Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.