W1001: Population Change in Rural Communities

(Multistate Research Project)

Status: Inactive/Terminating

Project Menu

SAES-422 Reports

Annual/Termination Reports:

[12/09/2003] [12/01/2004] [02/13/2006] [03/14/2007] [11/21/2008]

Date of Annual Report: 12/09/2003

Report Information

Annual Meeting Dates: 09/26/2003 - 09/27/2003
Period the Report Covers: 10/01/2002 - 09/01/2003

Participants

Berry, Eddy (eberry@hass.usu.edu) - Utah State University;

Brown, David (dlb17@cornell.edu) - Cornell University;

Cramer, Jim (jcramer@ucdavis.edu) - University of California, Davis;

Cromartie, John (jbc@ers.usda.gov) - Economic Research Service, USDA;

Fuguitt, Glenn (fuguitt@ssc.wisc.edu) - University of Wisconsin, Madison;

Glasgow, Nina (ng14@cornell.edu) - Cornell University;

Hammer, Roger (rhammer@facstaff.wisc.edu) - University of Wisconsin, Madison;

Hipple, Patricia (phipple@csrees.usda.gov) - CSREES, USDA;

Kandel, William (wkandel@ers.usda.gov) - Economic Research Service, USDA;

Kirschner, Anabel (kirschner@wsu.edu) - Washington State University;

Lee, Marlene (malee@facstaff.wisc.edu) - University of Wisconsin, Madison;

Nelson, Peter (pbnelson@middlebury.edu) - Middlebury College;

Rudzitis, Gundars (gundars@uidaho.edu) - University of Idaho;

Singelman, Joachim (joachim@lsu.edu) - Lousiana State University;

Vias, Alexander (Alexander.vias@uconn.edu) - University of Connecticut;

von Reichert, Christiane (reichert@selway.umt.edu) - University of Montana;

Brief Summary of Minutes

A resolution was passed to honor Jim Copp, long-time committee member and distinguished rural sociologist who died last year, by dedicating the forthcoming book to him. David Brown, Glenn Fuguitt, and others recalled several stories about their friend and highlighted Jims many contributions to the committee and the discipline.

Members took turns giving brief descriptions of on-going research, starting with new members.

Miles Rademan, Director of Public Affairs and Commmunication for Park City, welcomed W1001 members and presented a lively history of the area.

The committee participated in a conference call with their administrative advisor, Linda Fox, who outlined the procedures for official W1001 project membership using the online NIMS system. For applicants not at land grant institutions, Linda recommended submitting an Appendix E with a signature from the applicants own (non land-grant) institution, then checking with the States experiment station director for possible funding.

Pat Hipple, CSREES, discussed changes in the National Research Initiatives competitive grants program. W1001 needs to consider taking advantage of new opportunites for multi-disciplinary research in the area of agricultural restructuring and its effects on rural areas.

David Brown and William Kandel led a discussion of W1001s forthcoming monograph and upcoming conference. David is working toward a formal acceptance from a publisher before the book is written. Contributing members need to complete their chapters by March 1, 2004. ERS has funded a conference, to be held January 29-30, 2004, for members to present their findings to a policy-oriented audience.

Committee members decided that next years meeting would be held in Grand Forks, North Dakota and made plans to solicit Richard Rathge to take charge of local arrangements. Pat Hipple agreed to assist.

The committee made the following appointments:

Nina Glasgow, Chair

Marlene Lee, Vice-chair

John Cromartie, Secretary

The annual meeting concluded with a detailed discussion of objectives and goals. W1001 appears to be ahead of schedule. The forthcoming book will set the stage for future work by helping identify issues that can be tackled as a group. Possible issues include: mobility and the restructuring of rural space; natural resources and migration; changing livelihoods for working-class rural residents; and changing concepts of rural. To further facilitate the identification of future research, members were asked to produce a 1-page issues brief by January 5, 2004. In addition, subcommittees were assigned the task of developing synthesis papers by September 2004.

A resolution of appreciation to Eddy Berry was passed, for chairing the previous committee for several years and especially for overseeing the W1001 proposal process.

Accomplishments

In its first year, W1001 members undertook analyses of growth and change of rural populations at the national and regional levels, using newly-released Census 2000 data in combination with previous information. Arrangements were made for the publication of a book-length monograph based on these analyses, which is expected to come out in 2004. This initial work is designed to frame future rural development policy debates by identifying the main directions of change and their implications for the well being of rural people and communities. To present our findings and engage stakeholders in the process early on, the committee planned a two-day conference for January 2004, to be hosted by the Economic Research Service in Washington, DC. By providing a structure for more targeted, issue-specific studies, the research conducted in the first year and the resulting book will serve as a starting point for meeting the remaining milestones in later years. At the annual meeting in September, the committee identified prospective topics that might be tackled as a group and selected subcommittees to produce synthesis papers on each topic by the following September. Possible topics include: mobility and the restructuring of rural space; natural resources and migration; changing livelihoods for working-class rural residents; and changing concepts of rural. W1001 members evaluated the Census Bureau‘s new metro-nonmetro classification system relative to previous systems and uniformly adopted the most appropriate schema for the initial set of analyses. Completion of this milestone accompanied the development of a shared database from the Census 2000 SF3 files.

Publications

Berry, E. Helen and Annabel Kirschner. The Changing Face of the American West: The Burgeoning Latino Population. Western Regional Development Center White Paper Policy Series, 2002. Brown, David and Kai Schafft. 2003. Social Exclusion in Rural Areas of east-Central Europe. Eastern European Countryside. Vol. 9. Fuguitt, Glenn V., Calvin L. Beale and Stephen L. Tordella. 2002. "Recent Trends in Older Population Change and Migration for Nonmetro Areas, 1970-2000." Rural America 17:11-19. Glasgow, Nina and Alan Barton. 2003. Older Workers and Retirement in Rural Contexts. In William Falk, Michael Schulman, and Ann Tickamyer (eds.)Communities of Work. Athens: Ohio University Press. Johnson, Ken. "Racial/Ethnic Diversification in Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Population Change in the United States; Implications for Health Care Provision in Rural America." With S.H. Murdock, M. N. Hoque and M.A. McGehee. Journal of Rural Health 19(4): 425-432. 2003. Johnson, Ken. "Nonmetro Recreation Counties: Their Identification and Rapid Growth." With C.L. Beale. Rural America.17(4):12-19. 2002. Kirschner, Annabel. 2002. Washingtons Changing Age Structure. Washington Counts in the 21st Century. WSU Cooperative Extension Bulletin 1944E. December 2002. http://www.crs.wsu.edu/outreach/outreach.html. Kirschner, Annabel. 2002. Washingtons Changing Age Structure. Washington Counts in the 21st Century. WSU Cooperative Extension Bulletin 1944E. December 2002. Nelson, Peter, and Adam Sewall. 2003. "Regional Comparisons of Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Migration in the 1970s and 1980s: Age and Place Implications." The Professional Geographer 55: 83-99. Rudzitis, Gundars. Environmental Visions and Effective Decisionmaking, in G. Kenins King (editor), Arm in Arm: Development and Socio-economic Change,(translated into Latvian), Business Partners Press, Riga: Latvia, 2002, pp.172-187. Vias, A. C., Mulligan, G. F. and Molin, A. 2002. Economic Structure and Socioeconomic Change in Americas Micropolitan Areas, 1970-1997. Social Science Journal 32: 399-417. von Reichert, Christiane. Returning and New Montana Migrants: Socioeconomic and Motivational Differences. Growth and Change. Vol 33 Winter 2002, pp 133-151.

Impact Statements

W1001 is just entering its second year and has no impact statements developed at this time.

Date of Annual Report: 12/01/2004

Report Information

Annual Meeting Dates: 09/10/2004 - 09/11/2004
Period the Report Covers: 10/01/2003 - 09/01/2004

Participants

Berry, Eddy (eberry@hass.usu.edu) - Utah State University;
Brown, Dave (dlb17@cornell.edu) - Cornell University;
Cossman, Lynne (cossman@soc.msstate.edu)-Mississippi State University;
Cossman, Ron (ronald.cossman@ssrc.msstate.edu)-Mississippi State University;
Cromartie, John (jbc@ers.usda.gov) - Economic Research Service, USDA;
Foulkes, Matt (foulkesm@missouri.edu)-University of Missouri, Columbia;
Fox, Linda (lkfox@wsu.edu)-Washington State University;
Fuguitt, Glenn (fuguitt@ssc.wisc.edu) - University of Wisconsin, Madison;
Glasgow, Nina (ng14@cornell.edu) - Cornell University;
Kandel, William (wkandel@ers.usda.gov) - Economic Research Service, USDA;
Kirschner, Anabel (kirschner@wsu.edu) - Washington State University;
Lee, Marlene (malee@facstaff.wisc.edu) - University of Wisconsin, Madison;
Rudzitis, Gundars (gundars@uidaho.edu) - University of Idaho;
Singelman, Joachim (joachim@lsu.edu) - Lousiana State University;
Vias, Alex (alexander.vias@uconn.edu) - University of Connecticut;
von Reichert, Christiane (reichert@selway.umt.edu) - University of Montana;
Rathge,Richard (richard_rathge@ndsu.nodu.edu) - North Dakota State University.

Brief Summary of Minutes

Minutes Attachment:

Attachment

Accomplishments

In its second year, W1001 members continued analyses of growth and change in rural populations at national and regional levels. This research was based on use of 1990 and 2000 Census data combined with survey and other sources of data. William Kandel and David Brown continued their work as editors of the volume, Population Change and Rural Society, with several members of W1001 contributing chapters to the volume. The book has been accepted for publication by Kluwer Plenum's well-regarded demography series (now Springer Publishing), edited by Kenneth Land of Duke University. The book is expected to be in print by spring 2005. Two sessions organized around chapters in the book were presented at the Rural Sociological Society Annual Meeting in Sacramento, CA in August, 2004. W1001 members presented numerous other papers on rural population change at several professional conferences held during the year. W1001 members have identified the theme, Migration and Population Redistribution, with three sub-themes, which will be addressed in a day-long mini-conference to be held in conjunction with next year's annual meeting. The major outreach accomplishment of W1001 was the Population Change and Rural Society Conference held in January 2004. The Economic Research Service (ERS) hosted the two-day conference that each day drew over 120 attendees representing a wide range of government branches, policy organizations, and academic institutions. Attendees represented numerous branches of the USDA, including the Rural Development mission area, FCA, CNNP, CSREES, and NASS. Other Federal agencies represented included GAO, FDIC, and several branches of HHS. Researchers appeared from a wide variety of D.C.-based policy organizations, including Brookings Institution, Housing Assistance Council, Aspen Institute, Population Reference Bureau, Annie E. Casey Foundation, and Urban Institute. Attendance, however, was not confined to the Washington, D.C. metropolitan area. Visitors also came from the Delta Regional Authority, the North Dakota Farmers Union, from various academic institutions across the U.S., as well as Ottawa, Canada and Sydney, Australia. Presentation abstracts have been posted on ERS's website. Several of the committee's members gave other outreach presentations at a number of different venues. The committee is now planning a series of issue briefs to be posted on the websites of all four regional rural development centers. A Stakeholder Involvement Sub-committee has been formed, which will identify stakeholders and gather information from them during the coming year to be used to develop the kinds of demographic analyses and information that will be most useful to stakeholder groups.

Publications

Berry, E. Helen. 2005f. Rural Utah Ain't What it Used To Be. In Cathleen Zick (ed.), The Demographics of Utah. University of Utah Press. Berry, E. Helen and Michael B. Toney. 2005f. Population and Environment. In Marvin Dolsch and Linda Deutschmann (eds.), Social Problems: A Case Study Approach, 2nd edition. General Hall Inc. Brown, David L., and John Cromartie. 2003. In Tony Champion and Graeme Hugo(eds.), The Nature of Rurality in Post-Industrial Society, New Forms of Urbanization: Beyond the Urban-Rural Dichotomy. Adershot, England: Ashgate Publishing Company. Brown, David L., John Cromartie, and Laszlo J. Kulcsar. 2004f. "Micropolitan Areas and the Measurement of American Urbanization." Population Research and Policy Review. Vol. 23, no. 3. Brown, David L., Laszlo J. Kulcsar, Laszlo Kulcsar, and Csilla Obadavics. 2004f. "Post-Socialist Restructuring and Population Redistribution in Hungary." Rural Sociology. 69(4). Brown, David L. and Louis Swanson (eds.). 2003. Challenges for Rural America in the 21st Century. University Park: Penn State University Press. Brown, David L. and Louis Swanson. 2003. In Brown and Swanson (eds.), "Rural America Enters a New Millennium," Challenges for Rural America in the 21st Century. University Park: Penn State University Press. Carruthers, J. and Vias, A.C. 2005f. Capturing Land-Use Effects in Regional Adjustment Models. Journal of Regional Science. Foulkes, Matt, and K. Bruce Newbold. 2004f. "In-migration, Residential Mobility, and Residential Instability in Impoverished Rural Illinois Places." Environment and Planning A. Glasgow, Nina. 2004. "Healthy Aging in Rural America." In Glasgow, Morton and Johnson, (eds.), Critical Issues in Rural Health. Ames, Iowa: Blackwell Publishing. Glasgow, Nina. 2003. "Older Rural Families." In D.L. Brown and L.E. Swanson, (eds.), Challenges for Rural America in the Twenty-first Century. University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press. Glasgow, Nina, and Alan Barton. 2003. "Older Workers and Retirement in Rural Contexts." In Falk, Schulman, and Tickamyer (eds.), Communities of Work. Athens, Ohio: Ohio University Press. Glasgow, Nina, Nan E. Johnson and Lois Wright Morton. 2004. "Introduction." In Glasgow, Morton and Johnson, (eds.), Critical Issues in Rural Health. Ames. Iowa: Blackwell Publishing. Glasgow, Nina, Lois Wright Morton, and Nan E. Johnson, (eds.). 2004. Critical Issues in Rural Health. Ames, Iowa: Blackwell Publishing. Glasgow, Nina and David L. Brown. 2005f. Establishing New Ties: Social Integration among Older In-migrants in Nonmetropolitan Retirement Destination Counties. In W. Kandel and D.L. Brown (eds.), The Population of Rural America: Demographic Research for a New Century. New York: Springer. Haight, Robert G., David T. Cleland, Roger B. Hammer, Volker C. Radeloff and T. Scott Rupp. 2004f. Assessing Fire Risk in the Wild Land Urban Interface A Landscape Ecosystem Approach. Journal of Forestry. Hammer, Roger B. 2004f. The Geography of Residential and Employment Inequality: Female Employment and the Interaction of Space, Race, and Education. Critical Demography. Hammer, Roger B., Volker C. Radeloff, Susan I. Stewart, Richelle Winkler, and Paul R. Voss. 2004. Characterizing Spatial and Temporal Residential Density Patterns across the Midwest, 1940-1990. Landscape and Urban Planning 69(2-3):183-199. Hammer, Roger B. and Richelle Winkler. 2005f. Affordable Housing in the North Woods. In W. Kandel and D.L. Brown (eds.), The Population of Rural America: Demographic Research for a New Century. New York: Springer. Hunter, Lori, and Michael B. Toney. 2005f. Religion and Attitudes Toward the Environment: A Comparison of Mormons and the General U.S. Population. The Social Science Journal, 42(2). Johnson, Kenneth M. and Richard Rathge. Agricultural Dependence, Economic Hardship, and Population Change in the Great Plains. In W. Kandel and D.L. Brown (eds.), The Population of Rural America: Demographic Research for a New Century. New York: Springer. Kandel, William. 2004. Mexican Workers in U.S. Agriculture. In J. Durand and D.S. Massey (eds.), Crossing the Border: Research from the Mexican Migration Project. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Kandel, William and David L. Brown (eds.). 2005f. The Population of Rural America: Demographic Research for a New Century. New York: Springer. Kandel, William and John Cromartie. 2004. New Patterns of Hispanic Settlement in Rural America. Rural Development Research Report 99. Washington, DC: Economic Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture. Kandel, William and Emilio Parrado. 2004. Industrial Transformation and Hispanic Migration to the American South: The Case of the Poultry Industry. In D. Arreola (ed.), Hispanic Spaces, Latino Places: A Geography of Regional and Cultural Diversity. Austin: University of Texas Press. Kandel, William and Emilio Parrado. 2004. U.S. Industrial Transformation and New Latino Migration. Migration Information Source. Washington, DC: Migration Policy Institute. Kandel, William and Constance Newman. 2004. Rural Hispanics: Employment and Residential Trends. Amber Waves 2(3): 38-45. Kirschner, Annabel. 2003. Changing Conditions on the Olympic and Kitsap Peninsulas: 1990-2000. Pullman, WA: Washington State University. View at: http://www.crs.wsu.edu/outreach.html. Kirschner, Annabel. 2004. Change in Income and Poverty in Washington State, 1989-99." EB1973e. Pullman, WA: Cooperative Extension, Washington State University. View at: http://www.crs.wsu.edu/outreach/outreach.html. Kirschner, Annabel, and E. Helen Berry. 2004. The Changing Face of the American West: The Aging of the West. Logan, UT: Western Rural Development Center, Utah State University. Kirschner, Annabel, E. Helen Berry, and Nina Glasgow. 2005f. The Changing Composition of Rural America: Age Race/Ethnicity and Sex. In W. Kandel and D.L. Brown (eds.), The Population of Rural America: Demographic Research for a New Century. New York: Springer. Lee, Ji-yuan, Michael B. Toney, and E. Helen Berry. 2004. The Effects of Status Inconsistency between Spouses on Migration: Analysis of NLSY79 Couples. Korean Population Journal 26(2):197-219. Lee, M.A. and J. Singelmann. 2005f. Welfare amidst Chronic Poverty in the Mississippi Delta. In W. Kandel and D.L. Brown (eds.), The Population of Rural America: Demographic Research for a New Century. New York: Springer. Morton, Lois Wright, Nina Glasgow and Nan E. Johnson. 2004. "Reaching the Goal: Less Disparity, Better Rural Health." In N. Glasgow, L.W. Morton and N.E. Johnson (eds.), Critical Issues in Rural Health. Ames, Iowa: Blackwell Publishing. Nelson, P. 2005f. "Migration and the Spatial Redistribution of Nonearnings Income in the United States: Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Perspectives from 1975-2000." Environment and Planning A. Nelson, P. 2005f. The Changing Role of Amenities in Nonmetropolitan Population Flows across Regions. In L. Moss (ed.), Global Perspectives on Amenity Migration. Santa Fe, NM: International Cultural Resources Institute. Nelson, P. B., E. H. Stege, et al. 2004. "The Baby Boom and Nonmetropolitan Population Change, 1975-1990." Growth and Change 24(4): 526-544. Radeloff, Volker C., Roger B. Hammer, and Susan I. Stewart. 2004f. Sprawl and forest fragmentation in the U.S. Midwest from 1940 to 2000. Conservation Biology. Rathge, Richard, Carole Cochran and Kathy Moore. 2004. Family Economic Security for Rural Americans. Baltimore: Annie E. Casey Foundation. Rudzitis, Gundars. 2005f. Gaming, Population Change and Rural Development on Indian Reservations. In W. Kandel and D.L. Brown (eds.), The Population of Rural America: Demographic Research for a New Century. New York: Springer. Rudzitis, Gundars. 2004. Indigenous Indian Populations, Racist Discourses and Ongoing Conflicts in the American Northwest. In Pierre Lafayette (ed.), Exchange: Practices and Representations. Paris: University of Paris Press. Rudzitis, Gundars, Christy Dearien and John Hintz. 2005f. The Role of Wilderness and Public Land Amenities in Explaining Migration and Rural Development in the American Northwest. In Gary Green (ed.), Amenities and Rural Development. Edgar Elgar Publishers. Singelmann, Joachim, Theresa Davidson, and Rachel Reynolds. 2002. Welfare, Work, and Well-Being in Metro and Nonmetro Louisiana. Southern Journal of Rural Sociology 18:21-47. Stedman, Richard C., and Roger B. Hammer. 2004f. Environmental perception in a rapidly growing, amenity-rich region: The effects of lakeshore development on perceived water quality in Vilas County, Wisconsin. Society and Natural Resources. Sterns, Ronni, Vincent Antenucci, Charles Nelson, and Nina Glasgow. 2003. Public Transportation: Options to Maintain Mobility for Life. Generations XXVII(2): 14-19. Sterns, Ronni, Vincent Antenucci, Charles Nelson, and Nina Glasgow. 2003. Public Transportation Service Models, Generations XXVII(2): 20-22. Sawnson, Louis and David L. Brown. 2003. "Challenges Become Opportunities: Trends and Policies Shaping the Future." In Brown and Swanson, (eds.), Challenges for Rural America in the 21st Century. University Park: Penn State University Press. Vias, A.C. and Nelson, P. 2005f. Restructuring, Globalization, and Altered Livelihoods. In W. Kandel and D.L. Brown (eds.), The Population of Rural America: Demographic Research for a New Century. New York: Springer. Vias, A.C. 2004. Bigger Stores, More Stores or No Stores: Paths of Retail Restructuring in Rural America, 1988-1999. Journal of Rural Studies. 20(3): 303-318. Vias, A.C. and Collins, C. 2003. Differential Population and Income Migration in the Great Plains.Great Plains Research 13(2): 231-53. von Reichert, Christiane. 2005f. Community Evaluation and Migration Intentions: The Role of Attraction and Aversion to Place on the Northern Great Plains.In W. Kandel and D. Brown (eds.), The Population of Rural America: Demographic Research for a New Century. New York: Springer. Voss, Paul R., Katherine C. White, and Roger B. Hammer. 2004. The (re-)emergenceof spatial demography. In W. Kandel and D.L. Brown (eds.), The Population of Rural America: Demographic Research for a New Century. New York: Springer. Voss, Paul R., Daniel L. Veroff, and David D. Long. 2003. "Wisconsin's People: A Portrait of Wisconsin's Population on the Threshold of the 21st Century." Feature article, 2003-2004 Blue Book compiled by the Wisconsin Legislative Reference Bureau. Madison, WI: Wisconsin State Legislature, Joint Committee on Legislative Organization. Ashley, ND; Eureka, SD; Ellendale, ND "To communities as part of the Northwest Area Foundation Horizons Program," June 2004. Rathge, Richard. Presentation, Understanding the community in which you live: Grafton, ND; Red Lakes Falls, MN; Bagley, MN to communities as part of the Northwest Area Foundation Horizons Program, April 2004. Rathge, Richard. Development of 6 page profiles for each of the following communities as part of the Northwest Area Foundation Horizons Program. Ashley, ND; Eureka, SD; Ellendale, ND; Grafton, ND; Red Lakes Falls, MN; Bagley, MN. Rudzitis, Gundars. Presented, Protecting Amenities is a New Hot Strategy for Local Development, to the Icicle Valley Protection Alliance, Leavenworth, WA, July 2004. Rudzitis, Gundars. Interview on Bullet Syndicate KOHO radio show Viewpoints, Leavenworth, WA, July 2004. Rudzitis, Gundars. Wrote op-ed piece on amenities and local development that appeared in Leavenworth, WA and Wennachi, WA newspapers, 2004.. Rudzitis, Gundars. Co-wrote press release for Taxpayers for Common Sense, Washington, DC, on the role of protecting amenities in roadless areas as a local and federal development policy, June 2004. Veroff, Daniel L. and Roger B. Hammer. Population and Housing Projections for Waupaca County. Madison: University of Wisconsin Applied Population Laboratory, 2004. von Reichert, Christiane. Presentation, Analyzing Migration Intentions on the Northern Great Plains, Mathematics Seminar, University of Montana, November 2003.

Impact Statements

The good attendance and wide representation among organizations at the Population Change and Rural Society Conference, posting abstracts of papers on ERS‘s website, subsequent requests for full copies of the papers presented at the conference, and presentations at various academic and outreach conferences and other venues by several members of W1001 have ensured that our analyses are reaching a wide audience.
Our interactions with stakeholders during this next year will help us target development of demographic information that will be most useful to stakeholder groups.
Posting issues briefs developed from our chapters in the Population Change and Rural Society volume will facilitate even wider distribution of our book to those who can use the information in public decision making.

Date of Annual Report: 02/13/2006

Report Information

Annual Meeting Dates: 12/02/2005 - 12/03/2005
Period the Report Covers: 10/01/2004 - 09/01/2005

Participants

Berry, Eddy (eberry@hass.usu.edu) - Utah State University;
Brown, Dave (dlb17@cornell.edu) - Cornell University;
Cromartie, John (jbc@ers.usda.gov) - Economic Research Service, USDA;
Foulkes, Matt (foulkesm@missouri.edu) - University of Missouri, Columbia;
Fox, Linda (lkfox@wsu.edu) - Washington State University;
Fuguitt, Glenn (fuguitt@ssc.wisc.edu) - University of Wisconsin, Madison;
Glasgow, Nina (ng14@cornell.edu) - Cornell University;
Hammer, Roger - (???@ssc.wisc.edu) - University of Wisconsin, Madison;
Kirschner, Anabel (kirschner@wsu.edu) - Washington State University;
Lee, Marlene (malee@facstaff.wisc.edu) - University of Wisconsin, Madison;
Mauer, Whitney (kwl5@cornell.edu) - Cornell University;
Nelson, Peter (pbnelson@middlebury.edu) - Middlebury College;
Poston, Dudley L., Jr. (dudleyposton@yahoo.com), Texas A&M University;
Rathge, Richard (Richard.Rathge@ndsu.edu) - North Dakota State University;
Rudzitis, Gundars (gundars@uidaho.edu) - University of Idaho;
Singelman, Joachim (joachim@lsu.edu) - Lousiana State University;
Vias, Alex (alexander.vias@uconn.edu) - University of Connecticut;

Brief Summary of Minutes

Minutes of the 3rd annual meeting of the W1001 multi-state research project
Population Change in Rural Communities
Las Vegas, Nevada
December 2-3, 2005

Friday
Nina opened the meeting and members introduced themselves. Minutes from last year's meeting were approved.

Linda Fox said the mid-project review was completed with no midcourse corrections recommended. She advised us to keep in mind that this is the FY 2005 meeting; she has made efforts to minimize the confusion. The first date for submission of a new western regional committee proposal is January 2007.

Pat Hipple, CSREES liaison in absentia, sent word that the deadline for NRI rural development proposals is February 1, 2006. Two members, Gundars Rudzitis and Joachim Singelman, are planning on submitting a proposal and others were encouraged to consider this funding source.

Eddy Berry reported on the status of committee's new series of rural population issue briefs. Seven were promised and four have been submitted so far. All four directors of the regional rural research centers have committed to placing them on their web sites. It was decided to adopt a consistent format and graphic design, modeled on Richard Rathge's completed brief, and to encourage members to complete other submissions.

Richard reported on his work on stakeholder involvement. There are different ways to affect policy, depending on the level of government. At the federal level, it's important to tie into formal stakeholder networks already in place. Working with lobbying arms and state delegations raises awareness of our research on the hill. It means we end up on contact lists for work related to population.

The pros and cons of different outreach strategies were discussed. How do we make connections at key points? Does it help our group to work individually at the state level? Should we aim for another DC conference? How do we get feedback about what to investigate? How do we market our broad-based research covering migration and other demographic trends, versus work on specific, demographic aspects, such as aging, poverty, housing, or environment? The group agreed to identify groups that are working at the national level, such as NACO or Annie Casey, that have well-established networks. Such an effort could be organized along the committee's three migration-related research themes. The committee then broke into three groups to brainstorm on networking, with the following people leading the discussion:

Health and aging: Nina Glasgow
Population and environment: Roger Hammer
Poverty and inequalities: Marlene Lee

Each group reported back on initial thoughts. The sub-groups agreed to continue the discussion and compose a short write-up by next year's meeting that would summarize two elements:

1. What are the key issues, research questions, or particular areas of expertise that we want to base our networking on?
2. What can be done to develop networks? Specifically, what national groups do we want to develop relationships with?

In the meantime, the committee agreed to focus on generating the policy brief series:

1. all members should think about contributing a policy brief;
2. Eddy Berry and William Kandel will continue to coordinate the process;
3. Marlene Lee agreed to work on a grant to fund development and dissemination, especially;
4. David Brown agreed to talk with Robin Blakely about possibly serving as series editor;
5. John Cromartie agreed to look into developing a logo;

It was decided to hold next year's meeting in Washington, DC, tentatively September 22-23. Marlene agreed to head up local arrangements.

In continuing our development of a shared, multi-state research agenda, the committee decided to take a serious look at data sources and to dedicate part of next years meeting to data grounding. Members will make presentations on different data sets that are just coming online or that may have been underutilized so far.

Once the committee has identified key research issues and data needs, it will be in a better position to decide if we need to pursue a survey project that would generate data specifically addressing the committees research agenda, and, if so, how the survey would be designed. There is a clear need to study current data to better prepare for addressing new questions. John Cromartie volunteered to coordinate the review of data sources.

The committee elected the following new officers:

Roger Hammer, chair
Alex Vias, vice-chair

Eddy Berry agreed to act as senior technical advisor to help write the committees proposal;

The business meeting concluded with a round of applause for Nina Glasgow as a show of appreciation for her excellent service as president, especially in dealing with the difficult rearrangements required to hold this meeting.

The rest of the meeting was a mini-conference of presentations by committee members of current research findings (see attached agenda).

Respectfully submitted,
John Cromartie, secretary
December 23, 2005

Accomplishments

William Kandel and David Brown completed editing a book, Population Change in Rural Society in the 21st Century, which has been published in Springer's demography series edited by Kenneth Land. W1001 members contributed to 14 of the 20 chapters in the volume. W1001 members presented papers at numerous conferences including the Rural Sociological Society Annual Meeting in Tampa; the International Symposium on Society and Resource Management in Östersund, Sweden; the Population Association of America Annual Meeting in Philadelphia; and the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting in Denver.

Publications

Berry, E. Helen. In Press. Rural Utah Ain't What it Used to Be. In Cathleen Zick and Ken Smith (eds.) The Demography of Utah. Logan: University of Utah Press. Brown, Daniel G., Kenneth M. Johnson, Thomas R. Loveland and David M. Theobald. 2005. Rural Land Use Trends in the Coterminous U.S. 1950-2000. Ecological Applications. 15(6): 1851-1863. Brown, David L. and William Kandel. In Press. Rural America through a demographic lense. In W. Kandel and D.L. Brown (eds.), Population Change in Rural Society in the 21st Century. New York: Springer. Brown, David L., Laszlo J. Kulcsar, and Csilla Obabovics. 2005. Post-Socialist Restructuring and Population Redistribution in Hungary. Rural Sociology. 70(3): 336-359. Brown, J. Brian, and Daniel T. Lichter. In Press. Childhood Disadvantage, Adolescent Development, and Prosocial Behavior in Early Adulthood. Advances in Life Course Research 11. Carruthers, J. and Alexander C. Vias. 2005. Capturing Land-Use Effects in Regional Adjustment Models. Journal of Regional Science. 45(1): 21-48 Cromartie, John. 2006. Metropolitan Expansion and Nonmetropolitan Change in the South. In W. Kandel and D.L. Brown (eds.), Population Change in Rural Society in the 21st Century. New York: Springer. Crowley, Martha L., Daniel T. Lichter, and Zhenchao Qian. In Press. Beyond Gateway Cities: Economic Restructuring and Poverty among Mexican Immigrant Families and Children. Family Relations. Fuguitt, Glenn V. 2005. Some Demographic Aspects of Rurality. The Shape of Social Inequality: Stratification and Ethnicity in Comparitive Perspective. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility. 22:73-90. Gibbs, Robert, Lorin Kusmin and John Cromartie. 2005. Low-Skill Employment and the Changing Economy of Rural America. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture, Economic Research Service, Economic Research Report No. 10. Glasgow, Nina and David L. Brown. 2005. Establishing New Ties: Social Integration among Older In-migrants in Nonmetropolitan Retirement Destination Counties. In W. Kandel and D.L. Brown (eds.), Population Change in Rural Society in the 21st Century. New York: Springer. Gustafson, Eric J., Roger B. Hammer, Volker C. Radeloff and Robert S. Potts. 2005. The relationship between environmental attitudes and human settlement patterns between 1980 and 2000 in the Midwestern USA. Landscape Ecology 20(7):773-789. Hammer, Roger B. and Richelle Winkler (Senior authorship shared equally). 2005. Affordable Housing in the North Woods of Michigan, Minnesota, and Wisconsin. In W. Kandel and D.L. Brown (eds.), Population Change in Rural Society in the 21st Century. New York: Springer. Hawbaker, Todd J., Volker C. Radeloff, Roger B. Hammer, and Murray K. Clayton. 2005. Road Density and Landscape Pattern in Relation to Housing Density, and Ownership, Land Cover, and Soils. Landscape Ecology 20(5):609 -625. Hawbaker, Todd J., Volker C. Radeloff, Charlotte E. Gonzalez-Abraham, Roger B. Hammer, and Murray K. Clayton. In Press. Changes in road density and landscape pattern in northern Wisconsin, USA: 1938-1998. Ecological Applications. Hunter, Lori and Michael B. Toney. 2005. Religion and Attitudes Toward the Environment: A Comparison of Mormons and the General U.S. Population. The Social Science Journal 42(1):25-38. Johnson, Kenneth M., Paul R. Voss, Roger B. Hammer, Glenn V. Fuguitt, and Scott McNiven. 2005. Temporal and Spatial Variation in Age-Specific Net Migration in the United States. Demography 42(4):791-812. Johnson, Kenneth M. and Susan I. Stewart. 2005. Amenity Migration to Urban Proximate Counties. pp. 177-196 in G. P. Green, D. Marcouiller and S. Deller (eds.), Amenities and Rural Development: Theory, Methods and Public Policy. Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar Publishing. Johnson, Kenneth M., Al Nucci and Larry Long. In Press. Population Trends in Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan America: Selective Deconcentration and the Rural Rebound. Population Research and Policy Review. Johnson, Kenneth M. and Susan I. Stewart. In Press. Demographic Trends in National Forest, Recreational, Retirement and Amenity Areas. In: Linda Kruger, (ed.). Proceedings, Recreation Research and Management Workshop. General Technical Report PNW-xxx. Portland, OR: USDA Forest Service Research, Pacific Northwest Research Station. Johnson, Kenneth M. and Richard W. Rathge. 2005. Agricultural Dependence and Changing Population in the Great Plains. In W. Kandel and D.L. Brown (eds.), Population Change in Rural Society in the 21st Century. New York: Springer. Johnson, Kenneth M. and John Cromartie. 2005. The Rural Rebound and its Aftermath: Changing Dynamics and Regional Contrasts. In W. Kandel and D.L. Brown (eds.), Population Change in Rural Society in the 21st Century. New York: Springer. Kandel, William and Emilio Parrado. In Press. Hispanic Population Growth, Age Composition Shifts, and Public Policy Impacts in Nonmetrol Counties. In W. Kandel and D.L. Brown (eds.), Population Change in Rural Society in the 21st Century. New York: Springer. Kandel, William and Emilio Parrado. In Press. Hispanic Population Growth and Public School Response in Two New South Immigrant Destinations,. in The New South: Latinos and the Transformation of Place edited by H. Smith and O. Furuseth. Aldershot, England: Ashgate. Kandel, William and Emilio Parrado. 2005. Restructuring of the US Meat Processing Industry and New Hispanic Migrant Destinations. Population and Development Review 31(3): 447-471. Kirschner, Annabel, E. Helen Berry, and Nina Glasgow. In Press. Population Composition: Age,Sex and Race. In W. Kandel and D.L. Brown (eds.), Population Change in Rural Society in the 21st Century. New York: Springer. Kirschner, Annabel, and E. Helen Berry. 2005. The Changing Face of the Rural West: The Aging of the West WRDC Information Brief Issue 2, April. Western Rural Development Center, Utah State University, Logan, UT. Kirschner, Annabel and Ben Irion. 2005. Hispanics in Washington. Cooperative Extension, Washington State University, Pullman, WA Kirschner, Annabel and Lyssa Thadden. 2005. Educational Attainment in Washington State: 1990-2000. EB1944e Cooperative Extension, Washington State University, Pullman, WA. View at: http://www.crs.wsu.edu/outreach/outreach.html Kirschner, Annabel. 2005. Computer Services and the Development of Rural Areas: Trends in the Pacific Northwest in the 1990s. Social Science Journal. 43(2). Lee, Marlene A. and Joachim Singelmann. In Press. Welfare Reform Amidst Chornic Porverty in the Mississippi Delta. In W. Kandel and D.L. Brown (eds.), Population Change in Rural Society in the 21st Century. New York: Springer. Lichter, Daniel T. and Kenneth M. Johnson. In Press. Emerging Rural Settlement Patterns and the Geographic Redistribution of America's New Immigrants. Rural Sociology. Lichter, Daniel T. and Andrea Kane. In Press. Reducing Unwed Childbearing: The Missing Link in Efforts to Promote Marriage. Center for Children and Families, Policy Brief. Washington, DC: Brookings Institution. Lichter, Daniel T. In Press. In Search of the Best Poverty Measure. Measurement: Interdisciplinary Research and Perspectives. Lichter, Daniel T., Zhenchao Qian, and Leanna Mellott. In Press. Transitions to Marriage among Poor Cohabiting Women. Demography. Lichter, Daniel T. 2005. Review of Poor Kids in a Rich Country: America's Children in Comparative Perspective, by Lee Rainwater and Timothy M. Smeeding. Social Forces 83:1294-1296. Lichter, Daniel T. 2005. Review of One Nation, Underprivileged: Why American Poverty Affects Us All, by Mark Robert Rank. Journal of Marriage and Family 67:535-537. Lichter, Daniel T. In Press. Family Structure and Poverty. Encyclopedia of Sociology, edited by George Ritzer. Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ltd. Lichter, Daniel T., and Lori Ann Campbell. 2005. Changing Patterns of Poverty and Spatial Inequality in Appalachia. In Demographic and Socioeconomic Change in Applachia Series. Washington DC: Population Reference Bureau and Appalachian Regional Commission. Lichter, Daniel T., Jillian Garrett, Mary Marshall, and Michael Cardella. 2005. Emerging Patterns of Population Redistribution and Migration in Appalachia. In Demographic and Socioeconomic Change in Appalachia Series. Washington DC: Population Reference Bureau and Appalachian Regional Commission. Lichter, Daniel T., and Jillian Wooton. 2005. The Concentration of Reproduction in Low-Fertility Societies: The Case of the United States. In Alan Booth and Ann C. Crowder (eds.) The New Population Problem: Why Families in Developed Counties are Shrinking and What it Means. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates. Lichter, Daniel T., and Zhenchao Qian. 2005. Marriage and Family in a Multiracial Society. In Reynolds Farley and John Haaga (eds.) The American People: Census 2000. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Lichter, Daniel T., Zhenchao Qian, and Martha L. Crowley. In Press. Poverty and Economic Polarization Among America's Minority and Immigrant Children. In Russell Crane and Tim Heaton (eds.) Handbook of Families and Poverty: Interdisciplinary Perspectives. New York: Sage Publications. Lichter, Daniel T., Zhenchao Qian, and Martha L. Crowley. 2005. Child Poverty among Racial Minorities and Immigrants: Explaining Trends and Differentials. Social Science Quarterly 86(December):1037-1059. 0 Qian, Zhenchao, Daniel T. Lichter, and Leanna Mellot. 2005. Out-of-Wedlock Childbearing, Marital Prospects, and Mate Selection. Social Forces 82:473-491. Parrado, Emilio, and William Kandel. In Press. New Hispanic Migrant Destinations: A Tale of Two Industries,. In D. Massey (ed.) New Faces in New Places: The Changing Geography of American Immigration. New York: Russell Sage Foundation. Radeloff, Volker C., Roger B. Hammer, Susan I. Stewart, Jeremy S. Fried, Sheralyn S. Holcomb and Jason F. McKeefry. 2005. The Wildland-Urban Interface in the United States. Ecological Applications 15(3):799-805. Radeloff, Volker C., Roger B. Hammer and Susan I. Stewart. 2005. Sprawl and forest fragmentation in the U.S. Midwest from 1940 to 2000. Conservation Biology 19(3):793-805. Rathge, Richard W. In Press. The Changing Profile of the Great Plains. Great Plains Sociologist. Rathge, Richard W. and Kenneth M. Johnson. 2005. Does Rural Great Plains Depopulation Reflect Failed Public Policy?. Policy Brief No. 2005-01 (June). North Dakota State Data Center, North Dakota State University, Fargo, North Dakota. Rudzitis, Gundars, Christy Dearien and John Hintz. In Press. The Role of Wilderness and Public Land Amenities in Explaining Migration and Rural Development in the American Northwest,. in Amenities and Rural Development, Gary Green, editor, Edgar Elgar Publishers. Rudzitis, Gundars. In Press. Population Change and Rural Development on Indian Reservations. In W. Kandel and D.L. Brown (eds.), Population Change in Rural Society in the 21st Century. New York: Springer. Rudzitis, Gundars. In Press. Indigenous Indian Populations, Racist Discourses and Ongoing Conflicts in the American Northwest. In Pierre Lagayette (ed.) Exchange: Practices and Representations. Paris: University of Paris Press. Slack, Tim and Leif Jensen. In Press. Informal Work in Rural America: Theory and Evidence. In E.A. Marcelli and C.C. Williams (eds.) Informal Work in Developed Nations. Ann Arbor, MI: University of Michigan Press. Stedman, Richard C. and Roger B. Hammer. In Press. Environmental perception in a rapidly growing, amenity-rich region: The effects of lakeshore development on perceived water quality in Vilas County, Wisconsin. Society and Natural Resources. Stewart, Susan I. and Kenneth M. Johnson. In Press. Balancing Leisure and Work: Evidence from the Seasonal Home. In Rudy Shuster (ed.). Proceedings of the 2005 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium. General Technical Report NE-xxx Radnor, PA: USDA Forest Service Research, Northeastern Research Station. Toney, Michael B. and Young Taek Kim In Press. The Role of Migration in Changing and Sustaining Utah. in Cathleen Zick and Ken Smith (eds.) The Demography of Utah. Logan: University of Utah Press. Toney, Michael B. and E. Helen Berry. 2005. Population and Environment. in A Case Study Approach Social Problems, Second Edition edited by Norm Dolch and Lionda Deutschman, Gerald Hall. (revised from 2001 edition) Vias, Alexander C. and Carruthers, J. 2005. Regional Development and Land Use Change in the Rocky Mountain West, 1982-1997. Growth and Change. 36(2): 246-274. Vias, Alexander C. and Peter Nelson. In Press. Changing Livelihoods in Rural America. In W. Kandel and D.L. Brown (eds.), Population Change in Rural Society in the 21st Century. New York: Springer. von Reichert, Christiane. In Press. Community Evaluation and Migration Intentions: The Role of Attraction and Aversion to Place on the Northern Great Plains. In W. Kandel and D.L. Brown (eds.), Population Change in Rural Society in the 21st Century. New York: Springer. Voss, Paul R., David D. Long, Roger B. Hammer and Samantha Friedman. In Press. Child Poverty Rates in the U.S.: A Spatial Regression Approach. Population Research and Policy Review. Voss, Paul R., Katherine C. White and Roger B. Hammer. 2005. Explorations in spatial demography. In W. Kandel and D.L. Brown (eds.), Population Change in Rural Society in the 21st Century. New York: Springer.

Impact Statements

Four Rural Issues Briefs have been submitted and another four are in development and nearing completion. All four regional rural development centers will make the briefs available on their web sites.
Publication of the Kandel and Brown volume will have a significant impact on framing rural population issues and debates.

Date of Annual Report: 03/14/2007

Report Information

Annual Meeting Dates: 09/21/2006 - 09/23/2006
Period the Report Covers: 10/01/2005 - 09/01/2006

Participants

Beale, Calvin, (cbeale@ers.usda.gov) - ERS, USDA;
Berry, Eddy (eberry@hass.usu.edu) - Utah State University;
Brown, David (dlb17@cornell.edu) - Cornell University;
Cromartie, John (jbc@ers.usda.gov) - ERS, USDA;
Foulkes, Matthew (foulkesm@missouri.edu) - University of Missouri, Columbia;
Fox, Linda (lkfox@wsu.edu) - Washington State University;
Fuguitt, Glenn (fuguitt@ssc.wisc.edu) - University of Wisconsin, Madison;
Glasgow, Nina (ng14@cornell.edu) - Cornell University;
Hammer, Roger (rhammer@oregonstate.edu) - Oregon State University;
Hipple, Patricia (phipple@csrees.usda.gov) - CSREES, USDA;
Kandel, William (wkandel@ers.usda.gov) - ERS, USDA;
Kulcsar, Laszlo (kulcsar@ksu.edu) - Kansas State University;
Lee, Marlene (mlee@prb.org) - Population Reference Bureau;
Nelson, Peter (pbnelson@middlebury.edu) - Middlebury College;
Singelmann, Joachim (joachim@lsu.edu) - Lousiana State University;
Vias, Alexander (alexander.vias@uconn.edu) - University of Connecticut;

Brief Summary of Minutes

Notes from the W1001 Meeting held at the Population Reference Bureau, Washington, DC, September 22-23, 2006.

Roger Hammer called the meeting to order at 9am; he welcomed our newest member, Sean Golding, a graduate student at the University of Wisconsin.

Annual reports should be emailed to Roger; include only publications of whatever type; any doubts, include it. Include everything from the 10/1/05 through 9/30/06. Also include any group accomplishments directly related to W1001, including accepted grant proposals.

Linda Fox
Linda described CREATE21, the current initiative coming from station and experiment directors to focus on capacity-development funding. This would be a new model within USDA's funding of programs that would double the funding for rural and related programs currently funded by CSREES. There is a lot of energy around this discussion, but it would require changing language in current Farm Bill which is a complicated process. This has overwhelming support from the university administrative committees that have reviewed it. This initiative would expand funding, not take funding from other programs, and it would cover a wide variety of activities. It's important for this group to know about this and members can get more information from the website: www.CREATE-21.org If approved, it would start October 2007. It's essentially pooling all the research funding across all the land grants and other funding recipients and increasing the competitive funding levels as well; ERS would also be included in this. This is also a response by land grant universities to concerns about Federal appropriation of research funding power at several Federal agencies and the overall review of all research programs by Undersecretary Buchanan.

OUR PROPOSAL: This group's funding is over at the end of next year. We have one more meeting included in our current funding. If we want to consider extension, we have to review our proposal and see if anything hasn't been accomplished that could not be by the end of our funding period. Extensions are not encouraged. January 15 or May 15 are the due dates for new proposals, this is a multi-state project but it happens to be assigned to the Western region. The advantage of the 1/15 deadline is that we can receive feedback from peer reviewers which we can then use to revise our proposal and resubmit to improve our chances by the 5/15 deadline. If we chose only 5/15, we receive no feedback, just an up or down vote, and if not approved, we will have to wait until the following year. If we were not approved or if we missed the deadline, we would have a year without funding, and our 2008 year meeting would have to be held in October 2008. David Brown asked about whether our unfunded status, were it to occur, could be converted to a Coordinating Committee status. This is what we were before W1001 was formed and which offers some degree of funding but which has a different focus (sharing of ideas rather than necessarily working on joint products). State experiment stations however are less likely to fund travel or activities for Coordinating Committee members.

Hence the reiteration of our plea: MAKE SURE THAT YOU GET YOUR LIST OF PUBLICATIONS TO ROGER HAMMER ASAP. This is critical because it documents that we have been productive people for those considering our funding proposals.

Pat Hipple, CSREES
Pat has a new assignment, she is no longer in competitive programs, now she is a national program leader for a bio-based research program. Research focus is on the human dimension of shifting to this kind of new rural economy. Suresh Warn is replacing Pat. He is currently been with the Small Business Initiative and will include Pat's portfolio in his new responsibilities. One of the advantages of his having a full plate is that he is now more likely to move the due date for the proposals forward significantly. That would give more time between funding announcements and proposal due dates, and it would encourage more well thought out proposals.

The shift to every-other-year deadlines has produced more robust proposals funded at higher levels with more PI's and institutions. Most proposals, if approved, are fully funded. Note that human dimensions and social science dimensions of research funding at NRI is being spread to other NRI groups, so look these over when considering your grants. NRI is also including people in those panels who are able to evaluate them.

Focus of programs funded has been narrowed significantly. This year for Rural Development, NRI received 58 proposals compared to 82 last year. David asked about how Suresh makes his decisions and gets up to speed on what's critical to fund. There is a concern that no one with expertise on what is critical for rural America is providing input for what should be funded. Could we be a voice? Yes, we could form a committee and have a meeting with Suresh. That would be useful and effective according to Pat. However, don't underestimate the SCOP advisory committee that gets lots of input from all kinds of sources. They are shrewd about getting visibility for the social sciences, but they are also aware of the struggle that the social sciences have for getting funding within NRI. Pat has felt this same level of frustration with the social sciences.

Pat stresses that we get familiar with the new USDA 5-year Strategic Plan which includes the five year missions of all the USDA agencies, including the REE mission area and the CSREES strategic plan, both for 2007-2012. If you can link your proposals back to the Strategic Plans and show them how your proposal will help them achieve their strategic goals, it will receive more attention, and you will make it easier for USDA to be able to summarize at year end their own performance goals. You can find the strategic plan on the USDA website. Do a search on words related to your topic because it's a dense document. Focus on Goal #2 this year, Goal #3 next year.

Issue Briefs
They've been sent out to the four Rural Regional Development Centers, and the response has been very favorable. Five went out, produced by Glasgow and Brown, Kandel and Parrado, Pfeffer et al., Kirschner et al., and Johnson and Rathge. These issue briefs can also accompany communications that encourage funding for certain types of research activities. We need a second wave of these now. New volunteers: Marlene, Roger, Latzi, and Matt, Pete and Alex. We also need to send these to Linda to get these on the NIMS website. We're not sure who is responsible for the W1001 website. NACO would also be interested in looking at the issue briefs.

Discussion of Rural Aging activities

This stems from David and Nina's experience in England where there is a good deal of interest in this topic. The Ageing Countryside is a book length (150 pages total?) policy-oriented and mostly descriptive analysis that seems like a model for what we could produce. AARP folks are not joining us at the W1001 meeting. They may very well be interested but they have more formal channels for soliciting funding and support. Also, Dan Lichter suggested that the Bronfenbrenner Lifecourse Center at Cornell might contribute resources toward this effort. There are two issues here: could we produce a monograph, similar to TAC and put together a large national conference or public event to launch it? The idea is that it would be co-sponsered by AARP and W1001 and perhaps Cornell. The second issue is whether this is something that W1001 committee members would be interested in working on? We would want to get something out soon, not in three years but more like one or two years. Doing this would help us finish up with our current proposal agenda and would also help us to think about ideas for the upcoming proposal.

Discussion ensued on what kind of monograph we might produce. It wouldn't replicate the content of TAC because of the different contexts of rural in both countries. Not everyone from W1001 would contribute, and others outside W1001 might be invited. It wouldn't necessarily require new and original research unless there are serious holes. The group formally voted to let David and Nina take the lead on this and move forward on the (relatively) short term objective of getting a book together and a conference launch event. This is distinct from developing our research agenda for the next five years.

GIS training

Several people expressed an interest in receiving some GIS training at the basic and more conceptually oriented level. Middlebury has a one-day seminar like this that helps people think about asking questions that can be answered using GIS. We also have people within the group who could offer this training. We'd probably have it at the W1001 meeting, and we'd probably have to shorten the conference to one day. Pre-planning and prep could save time. GIS would be helpful for helping us address our research agenda in aging, race and ethnicity, and population and natural resources. Peter will help us figure out what training we might be interested in by sending out some information on the GIS courses offered by the people at Middlebury. Linda encouraged us to put some of this information in our next proposal. Peter Nelson will pursue this idea and see what options we could have for a day-long workshop.

List serve pointer

Don't worry about attachments bouncing back; as soon as Eddy gets to the email, she will be able to pass it on to the rest of us. Don't panic.

Discussion of New W1001 Proposal

David suggested writing a proposal that both re-authorizes funding for the group activities and could be used to apply for NRI funding. If we applied for $500k, that's real money, and the timing is also good between the two projects. And we could insert more than one proposal.

We are moving from the current project that is fairly general in scope to one that should be more focused. The best strategy is to distill the new proposal from the previous one, show the logical evolution from our main findings toward three themes: aging, diversity, and environment.

Last time around, the chair wrote the proposal after notes and ideas were collected from the group. This time, Roger will work with Alex Vias to write proposal based on detailed input from groups representing the three selected subject areas.

Before breaking into subject-area groups, the committee discussed several questions.

1. Do we begin with a common, overarching theme, and, if so, what is it? Migration? Changing population composition? Inequality? It will be important to not get too complex; keep the proposal flexible; narrowing in on one theme, such as inequality, may be too confining. Pat suggested focusing on the question: How do demographic trends affect rural areas ability to prosper? So, for example, diversity is an important subject in figuring out rural capacity to prosper;

2. Are the changes we focus on affecting rural areas in unique ways? If so, should urban-rural differentials be emphasized? This can be tricky to incorporate, but we should always be asking: Does rurality make a difference?

3. Should we keep the name of the committee? Should we add a subtitle? There are advantages to continuity, especially for a group such as ours that serves as a model for others.

The goal for the first break-out session is for each group to hash out 4 or 5 key topics within the subject area. The second break-out session on Saturday will then identify committee objectives for the topics. The end result will be 2-3 pages that could be turned over to Alex and Roger for drafting the Objectives section of the proposal.

The committee decided that next year's meeting will be in Corvallis, Oregon, Sept. 21-22, 2007; the rest of the afternoon was spent in the first break-out session.

Saturday, September 23

Each group reported on a set of topic areas discussed the previous day:

Aging:

1. How new elderly alter the rural landscape; socioeconmoc, demographic civic

2. Re-theorizing migration spatially/temporally

3. life-course changes connected to migration

4. role of spatial scale; networks and spillovers

5. role of colleges and univ. in attaching people to rural and small town places

6. role of big capital, real estate in determining migration

Diversity:

1. working-poor families and strengthening economic well-being

2. poverty, policy, and minorities; migration differences by race

3. immigration and latino integration

4. concentrated poverty; duration of poverty; urban - rural differentials

5. comparative economic strategies among rural poor

6. spatial segregation

7. migration and disability

Land use:

1. rural landscape transformations; migration/land-use interactions

2. environmental attitudes of migrants

3. regional differences in land-use controls; role in maintainting rural well being

4. impacts of pop growth on land and water quality

5. environmental impacts of commuting / spatial mismatch

6. wildland / urban interface

7. national park impacts

8. loss of farmland

9. land-use conflicts among rural groups

10. environmental justice

The rest of the meeting time was spent in the second break-out session. Each group began the process of formulating specific objectives. In addition, the groups agreed to draft paragraphs on related current and previous work, justification, impacts, and outputs.

The meeting adjourned at 11:47.

Respectfully submitted,

John Cromartie & with the generous assistance of William Kandel

Accomplishments

This is the fourth year of W1001, and, thus time to begin summarizing the accomplishments of the project. W1001 set out to: 1. produce a series of issue-briefs that would be posted on Internet sites 2. numerous peer-reviewed journal articles 3. a book-length monograph 4. ensure that potential users of the information, identified in the research design phase, would be actively involved in the interpretation and dissemination of our findings 5. develop summary materials workshops that prepare stakeholders to a. understand basic demographic processes, b. better identify their own data needs and sources, c. interpret data in multiple ways, and assess implications for action in their own contexts As of 2006, the series of issue-briefs has been posted to the Rural Development Center websites, and the WAAESD site. The effect of publishing the policy briefs on the Web has been to accomplish the fourth and fifth objectives listed above. That is, as a result of the widespread use of the Web, a number of unanticipated sites, including several university coursework links (Montana, Maryland); policy organizations; a national association for small hospitals website; sites that collect and disseminate information on rural areas, Hispanics, aging, rural change. have picked up the policy briefs; and the briefs have led to dissemination in health related venues in Utah, New York, and elsewhere where they have been utilized by stakeholders understand demographic processes, identify and interpret needs. Regarding item 2, numerous peer-reviewed journal articles have appeared, as documented by the extensive publication list. In re item 3, the monograph, W. Kandel and D.L. Brown, eds., Population Change in Rural Society in the 21st Century, Springer, appeared at the beginning of 2006.

Publications

Batson, Christie, Zhenchao Qian, and Daniel T. Lichter. 2006. Interracial and Intraracial Patterns of Mate Selection among America,s Diverse Black Populations. Journal of Marriage and Family 68:658-672. Berry, E. Helen. 2006. Rural Utah Ain't What it Used to Be, (Chapter 19) in Cathleen Zick and Ken Smith (ed.), The Demographics of Utah. University of Utah Press. Brown, David L. 2005. Post-Socialist Transformation at the Rural Periphery. Pp. 67-74 in Mieczyslaw Adamowicz (ed.), Agrarian Issues in Poland and the World. Warsaw: Warsaw Agricultural University Press. Brown, David and William Kandel. 2006. Rural America Through a Demographic Lens, in W. Kandel and D. Brown (eds.), Population Change and Rural Society. Dordrecht: Springer. Brown, David L. and William Kandel. 2006. Rural America through a Sociodemographic Lens, Pp. 3-24 in William Kandel and David L. Brown (eds.), Population Change and Rural Society. Dordrecht: Springer. Brown, David L. Laszlo J. Kulcsar, Laszlo Kulcsar, and Csilla Obadocics. 2005. Post- Socialist Restructuring and Population Redistribution in Hungary. Rural Sociology 70(3): 336-359. Brown, J. Brian and Daniel T. Lichter. 2006. Childhood Disadvantage, Adolescent Development, and Prosocial Behavior in Early Adulthood. Advances in Life. Crowley, Martha L., Daniel T. Lichter, and Zhenchao Qian. 2006. Beyond Gateway Cities: Economic Restructuring and Poverty among Mexican Immigrant Families and Children. Family Relations. 55:345-360. Glasgow, Nina and David L. Brown. 2006. Social Integration among Older In-Migrants in Nonmetropolitan Retirement Destination Counties: Establishing New Ties. Pp. 177-196 in William Kandel and David L. Brown (eds.), Population Change and Rural Society. Dordrecht: Springer. Glasgow, Nina and David L. Brown. 2006. Social Integration among Older Nonmetropolitan In-Migrants. Research and Policy Brief. Cornell University: Rural New York Initiative. Glasgow, Nina and David L. Brown. 2006. Social Integration among Older Nonmetropolitan In-migrants. Published on the Web sites of the Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development and the Southern Rural Development Center in the Issue Briefs Series: Population Change and Rural Society. Graefe, Deborah Rompke Graefe, and Daniel T. Lichter. 2006. When Unwed Mothers Marry: The Marital and Cohabiting Partners of Mid-Life Women. Journal of Family Issues, forthcoming. Hawbaker, Todd J., Volker C. Radeloff, Murray K. Clayton, Roger B. Hammer, and Charlotte E. Gonzalez-Abraham. 2006. Road Development, Housing Growth, and Landscape Fragmentation in Northern Wisconsin: 1937-1999. Ecological Applications. 16(3):1222-1237. Johnson, Kenneth M. 2006. Demographic Trends in Rural and Small Town America. Reports on America 1(1):1-35. Carsey Foundation, University of New Hampshire. Johnson, Kenneth M. and Richard W. Rathge. 2006. Agriculture Dependence and Changing Population in the Great Plains. Pp. 197-217 in W. Kandel and D.L. Brown (eds.), Population Change and Rural Society. Dordrecht: Springer. Johnson. Kenneth M. and John B. Cromartie. 2006. The Rural Rebound and Its Aftermath: Changing Demographic Dynamics and Regional Contrasts. Pp. 25-49 in W. Kandel and D.L. Brown (eds.), Population Change and Rural Society. Dordrecht, Netherlands: Springer. Johnson, Kenneth M. and Susan I. Stewart. 2006. Demographic Trends in National Forest, Recreational, Retirement and Amenity Areas. In Linda Kruger, (ed.), Proceedings, Recreation Research and Management Workshop. General Technical Report PNW-xxx. Portland, OR: USDA Forest Service Research, Pacific Northwest Research Station. Forthcoming. Kandel, William and David Brown (eds.). 2006. Population Change and Rural Society. Dordrecht, The Netherlands: Springer. Kandel, William and Emilio Parrado. 2006. Hispanic Population Growth, Age Composition Shifts, and Public Policy Impacts in Nonmetro Counties, in W. Kandel and D. Brown (eds.), Population Change and Rural Society. Dordrecht: Springer. Kandel, William, and Emilio Parrado. 2006. Hispanic Population Growth and Public School Response in Two New South Immigrant Destinations, in H. Smith and O. Furuseth (eds.), The New South: Latinos and the Transformation of Place. Aldershot, England: Ashgate. Kandel, William and Emilio Parrado. 2006. Public Policy Impacts of Rural Hispanic Population Growth. Issue Brief, published in conjunction with the W1001 Multistate Research Project on Population Change in Rural Communities. Posted on websites of USDA's Rural Regional Development Centers. Kandel, William. 2006. Book review essay. New Destinations: Mexican Immigration in the United States; Apple Pie & Enchiladas: Latino Newcomers in the Rural Midwest; The American South in a Global World. International Migration Review 40(2):465-468. Kandel, William. 2006. Rural meat Processing Industry Draws Hispanic Workers. Amber Waves 4(3):11-15. Republished as Meat-processing Firms Attract Hispanic Workers to Rural US in Meat International, 16(7):2-5. Kandel, William and Emilio Parrado. 2005. Industrial Transformation and Hispanic Migration to the American South: The case of the Poultry Industry. Republished in, Rethinking the Color Line: Readings in Race and Ethnicity. New York: McGraw Hill. Kandel, William. 2005. Book review. Newcomers to Old Towns: Suburbanization of the Heartland. International Migration Review. 39(2):516. Kandel, William. 2005. Rural Hispanics at a Glance. Economic Research Service, USDA. Kirschner, Annabel, E. Helen Berry, and Nina Glasgow. 2006. The Changing Demographic Profile of Rural America. Published on the Web sites of the Northeast Regional Center for Rural Development and the Southern Rural Development Center in the Issue Briefs Series: Population Change and Rural Society. Kirschner, Annabel., E. Helen Berry, and N. Glasgow. 2006. Population Composition: Age, Sex and Race, (chapter 4), in William Kandel and David Brown, (eds.), The Population of Rural America: Demographic Research for a New Century. Kluwer. Kulcsár, László J. and Benjamin C. Bolender. 2006. Home on the Range: Aging in Place in Rural Kansas. Online Journal of Rural Research and Policy, Issue 2006. Lichter, Daniel T. 2006. Family Structure and Poverty. Encyclopedia of Sociology, George Ritzer (ed.). Oxford: Blackwell Publishing Ldt. Lichter, Daniel T. and Kenneth M. Johnson. 2006. Emerging Rural Settlement Patterns and the Geographic Redistribution of America's New Immigrants. Rural Sociology. 71:109-131. Lichter, Daniel T., Zhenchao Qian, and Leanna Mellott. 2006. Marriage or Dissolution? Union Transitions among Low Income Women. Demography 43:223-240. Luo, Hua and Dudley L. Poston, Jr. 2006. Chusheng Xingbiebi de Shehui JuedingYinsu: dui 2000 Nian Zhongguo Zuida de 36 Ge Shaoshu Minzu de Fenxi,(Social and Economic Determinants of the Sex Ratio at Birth: 36 Largest Chinese Minority Nationalities). Renkou Yanjiu, (Population Research) 29 (#6): 56-61. Mulligan, G. and Alex Vias. 2006. Growth and Change in U.S. Micropolitan Areas. Annals of Regional Science, 45(1):21-48. Nelson, Peter. 2006. Geographic Perspectives on Amenity Migration Across the USA: National, Regional and Local Scale Analysis. The Amenity Migrants: Seeking and Sustaining Mountains and their Cultures. L.Moss (ed.). CABI Publishing, Cambridge, pp 55-73. Nelson, Peter. 2005. Migration and the Spatial Redistribution of Nonearnings Income in the United States: Metropolitan and Nonmetropolitan Perspectives from 1975-2000. Environment and Planning A. 37.1613-1636. Poston, Dudley L., Jr., Che-Fu Lee, Chiung-Fang Chang, Sherry L. McKibben, and Carol S. Walther (eds.). 2006. Fertility, Family Planning, and Population Policy in China. London, England: Routledge Publishers. Poston, Dudley L., Jr., Chiung-Fang Chang, and Hong Dan. 2006. Fertility Differences Between the Majority and Minority Nationalities in China. Population Research and Policy Review. 26:67-101 Poston, Dudley L., Jr., Amanda K. Baumle, and Michael Micklin. 2006. Demography. In Handbook of 21st Century Sociology. Dennis L. Peck and Clifton D. Bryant (eds.). New York: Sage. Poston, Dudley L., Jr. 2006. John Graunt. P. 254 in The Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology, Bryan Turner (ed.). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. Poston, Dudley L., Jr. 2006. Malthus. Pp. 347-348 in The Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology, Bryan Turner (ed.). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. Poston, Dudley L., Jr. 2006. Demography. Pp. 128-130 in The Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology, Bryan Turner (ed.). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. Poston, Dudley L., Jr. and Heather K.M. Terrell. 2006. Fertilility. Pp. 210-203 in The Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology, Bryan Turner (ed.). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. Poston, Dudley L., Jr., Mary Ann Davis, and Chris Lewinski. 2006. Mortality. Pp. 403-405 in The Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology, Bryan Turner (ed.). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. Poston, Dudley L., Jr., Hua Luo, and Li Zhang. 2006. Migration. Pp. 384-386 in The Cambridge Dictionary of Sociology, Bryan Turner (ed.). Cambridge, England: Cambridge University Press. Poston, Dudley L., Jr. and Carol S. Walther. 2006. Prologue. Pp. 1-7 in Dudley L. Poston, Jr., Che-Fu Lee, Chiung-Fang Chang, Sherry L. McKibben, and Carol S. Walther (eds.). Fertility, Family Planning, and Population Policy in China. London, England: Routledge Publishers. Poston, Dudley L., Jr. and Karen S. Glover. 2006. China's Demographic Destiny: Marriage Market Implications for the Twenty-first Century. Chapter 12 (pp. 172-186) in Dudley L. Poston, Jr., Che-Fu Lee, Chiung-Fang Chang, Sherry L. McKibben, and Carol S. Walther (eds.). Fertility, Family Planning, and Population Policy in China. London, England: Routledge Publishers. Rathge, Richard W. 2005. The Changing Profile of the Great Plains. Great Plains Sociologist 17(2):82-99. Rathge, Richard W. 2006. The Economic Impact of the Senior Population on a State's Economy: The Case of North Dakota. North Dakota State Data Center, North Dakota State University, Fargo: North Dakota. Rudzitis, Gundars. 2006. The Role Of Wilderness and Public Land Amenities in Explaining Migration and Rural Development In The American West, in Gary Paul Green, Steven C. Deller and David W. Marcouiller, (eds.) Amenities and Rural Development: Theory, Methods And Public Policy, Edward Elgar Publishing, Northhampton, MA, pp. 113-128. (with Christy Dearien and John Hintz). Rudzitis, Gundars. 2006. Gaming, Population Change, And Rural Development On Indian Reservations: An Idaho Case Study, in William A. Kandel and David L. Brown, (eds.), Population Change and Rural Society, Springer Publishers, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, pp. 219-232. Rudzitis, Gundars. 2006. Indigenous Indian Populations, Racist Discources And Ongoing Conflicts In The American Northwest, in Pierre Lagayette, (ed.), Exchange: Practices And Representations, Paris, University of Paris Press, pp. 171-196. Stedman, Richard C. and Roger B. Hammer. 2006. Environmental perception in a rapidly growing, amenity-rich region: The effects of lakeshore development on perceived water quality in Vilas County, Wisconsin. Society and Natural Resources 19(2):137-151. Stewart, Susan I. and Kenneth M. Johnson. 2006. Balancing Leisure and Work: Evidence from the Seasonal Home, in Rudy Shuster (ed.), Proceedings of the 2005 Northeastern Recreation Research Symposium. General Technical Report NE-xxx, Radnor, PA: USDA Forest Service Research, Northeastern Research Station. Forthcoming. Van Auken, Paul M., Roger B. Hammer, Paul R. Voss, and Daniel L. Veroff. 2006. The American Community Survey in Counties with "Seasonal" Populations. Population Research and Policy Review. 25(3):275-292. Vias, A. C and Carruthers. J. 2005. Regional Development and Land Use Change in the Rocky Mountain West, 1982-1997. Growth and Change. 36(2): 246-274. Voss, Paul R., David D. Long, Roger B. Hammer, and Samantha Friedman. 2006. Child Poverty Rates in the U.S.: A Spatial Regression Approach. Population Research and Policy Review. 25(4):369-391. Xiuhong You and Dudley L. Poston, Jr. 2006. The Effect of Floating Migration on Fertility, Chapter 9 (pp. 127-144), in Dudley L. Poston, Jr., Che-Fu Lee, Chiung-Fang Chang, Sherry L. McKibben, and Carol S. Walther (eds.), Fertility, Family Planning, and Population Policy in China. London, England: Routledge Publishers. Book Reviews Berry, E. Helen, 2006. Diamond: A Struggle for Environmental Justice in Louisiana's Chemical Corridor by Steve Lerner in Rural Sociology vol. 71 (1). Vias, A. C. and Nelson, P. 2006. Restructuring, Globalization, and Altered Livelihoods, Chapter 4 in Population Change and Rural Society. Eds. Kandell, W. and Brown, D. Dordrect: Springer. Pages 75-102. Presentations Brooks, W. Trevor, Michael B. Toney, and E. Helen Berry, 2006. Occupational Aspirations and Migration: A Comparison of Rural Youth with High, Medium, and Low Occupational Aspirations and Their Chances for Migration. Annual Meetings of the Rural Sociological Society of America, Louisville, KY. Beth A. Wilson, E. Helen Berry, Michael B. Toney, Cromartie, John B., 2006. Propensities for Return Migration of Racial/Ethnic Groups to Non-Metropolitan Places. Annual Meetings of the Rural Sociological Society of America, Louisville, KY. Wilson, Beth A., Michael B. Toney, E. Helen Berry, 2006. Onward Migration: Blacks, Hispanics and Non-Hispanic Whites, Annual Meetings of the Population Association of America, Los Angeles. Vias, A. C., December, 2005. Growth and Change in Micropolitan Areas. At the USDA W-1001 Meeting on Rural Population Change - Las Vegas, NV. March, 2006, Vias, A. C. Characteristics of Opportunity and Vulnerability in America's Micropolitan Areas, at the Association of American Geographers Meeting - Chicago, IL.

Impact Statements

The four rural Issues Briefs posted on national websites are having an impact by informing stakeholders, increasing their access to data, and increasing population researchers understanding of what stakeholders require to meet policy needs.
The wide number of links to the Policy Brief series on the World Wide Web, and the increasing numbers of citations to the Policy Brief series on university, association, and other web sites indicates that the policy briefs are having an impact on the thinking and apparent activities of stakeholders.
Publication of the Kandel and Brown volume, to which W1001 contributed 70% of the chapters, is having a significant impact on framing rural population debates because the text is the most comprehensive examination of social and economic issues on rural America. Citations to various chapters in this text, again, as noted on the web alone, increase by one or two every second day, a number that is already over 500 links.

Date of Annual Report: 11/21/2008

Report Information

Annual Meeting Dates: 09/21/2007 - 09/22/2007
Period the Report Covers: 10/01/2002 - 09/01/2007

Participants

Berry, Eddy (eddy.berry@usu.edu) - Utah State;
Brown, David (dlb17@cornell.edu) - Cornell;
Cromartie, John (jbc@ers.usda.gov) - USDA-ERS;
Evans, Mariah (mevans@unr.edu) - Nevada;
Foulkes, Matthew (foulkesm@missouri.edu) - Missouri;
Fox, Linda (lkfox@wsu.edu) - Washington State;
Fuguitt, Glenn (fuguitt@ssc.wisc.edu) - Wisconsin;
Golding, Shaun, (sgolding@ssc.wisc.edu) - Wisconsin;
Hammer, Roger (rhammer@oregonstate.edu) - Oregon State;
Kandel, William (wkandel@ers.usda.gov) - USDA-ERS;
Kirschner, Annabel (kirschner@wsu.edu) - Washington State;
Kulcsar, Laszlo (kulcsar@ksu.edu) - Kansas State;
Rayer, Stefan (stefanr@bebr.ufl.edu) - Florida;
Singelmann, Joachim (joachim@lsu.edu) - Louisiana State;
von Reichert, Christiane (chris.vonreichert@mso.umt.edu) - Montana;
Wall, Tamara (tamchris.wall@gmail.com) - Montana;
White, Katherine (kwhite@ssc.wisc.edu) - Wisconsin;

Participants Attachment:

Attachment

Brief Summary of Minutes

attached

Minutes Attachment:

Attachment

Accomplishments

In the first three years, W1001 members collaborated on a coordinated series of research studies focused on the growth and change of rural populations at the national and regional levels, using newly-released Census 2000 data in combination with previous information. As a critical first step, the committee evaluated the Census Bureau's new metro-nonmetro classification system relative to previous systems. Researchers then uniformly adopted the most appropriate schema for the initial set of analyses. Completion of this milestone accompanied the development of a shared database from the Census 2000 SF3 files. To engage stakeholders early in the process of identifying key demographic questions and developing strategies for disseminating results, the committee organized and co-hosted a two-day Population Change and Rural Society Conference in Washington, DC. Preliminary research findings were presented, abstracts were posted on the ERS web site, and papers were disseminated upon request. Interactions with stakeholders during this workshop and through other venues helped members develop demographic knowledge most useful to stakeholder groups. The committee produced the first comprehensive, book-length monograph on the demography of rural America at the turn of the century, Population Change and Rural Society (Kandel and Brown, 2006). It included basic analyses on how the rural U.S. population has grown and changed during the last two decades of the twentieth century. It also included a number of targeted, issue-specific case studies focused on different rural regions. The book helped frame rural development policy at the national and regional levels by identifying the main directions of change, where such changes are occurring, and their implications for the well being of rural people and communities. W1001 members edited the volume and contributed 14 of the 20 chapters. The research conducted in the first three years served as a starting point for meeting the remaining objectives in later years. Over 150 articles in various outlets were written by members of the W-1001 research committee, many including multiple authors from the committee. Participants made numerous research presentations at professional associations and to public policy audiences at the federal, state, and local levels. Core topics included changing patterns of migration, aging of the population, the growth and decline of at-risk populations, and the impacts of population change on local quality of life and access to essential goods and services. W-1001 published a series of issue briefs that are available on each of the regional Rural Development Center websites, and the WAAESD site. They derive primarily from the chapters of Population Change and Rural Society. The committee also helped shape the Rural Population and Migration briefing room published by ERS, along with two ERS data products (the Profiles of America and Rural Definitions). ERS research has been strongly influenced by topics raised in this group and has addressed many of these issues in its own series of issue briefs (Rural America at a Glance) and articles published in Amber Waves.

Publications

Attached is the W1001 publication list, 2002-2007.

Publications Attachment:

Attachment

Impact Statements

W1001 was at the forefront of knowledge development needed to understand the linkages between population change and rural society. The efforts of W1001 contributed substantially to the consideration of policy choices affecting rural communities. The project has had an impact by informing stakeholders, increasing access to data, and shaping population research to meet the needs of stakeholders.
The demographic future of nonmetropolitan America increasingly depends on social, economic, and political factors that integrate rural America into larger national and international systems. Prospects for local economic development remain uncertain, and processes beyond the control of local officials, such as exchange rate volatility and the persistent erosion of service sector employment wages, are likely to affect rural economies in the coming decades.
Fewer than one in ten people living in rural areas still have farming-related jobs. Globalization and economic restructuring are affecting rural livelihoods and fostering international migration that contributes to ethnic change. A relatively young, heavily Latino immigrant workforce plays an increasingly important economic and social role amid a retirement-age non-minority population.
Numerous public policy implications of rapid rural Hispanic population growth stem from differences in age composition between non-Hispanic Whites and the relatively small but rapidly growing Hispanic population.
Elderly in-migrants to rural retirement destinations have levels of social integration comparable to longer-term older residents despite their recent arrival. They have almost as many children and other relatives close by as older persons who have lived in the retirement destinations for a longer period of time. This bodes well for elderly involvement and well being in new rural communities and bolsters the argument for rural development policies aimed at attracting retirees.
Some rural areas are being bolstered by the economic benefits of exurban-urban commuters, retirement migration, and natural-amenity-related growth, while many persistently poor counties throughout rural America remain uninfluenced by such developments. Persistent poverty remains both spatially clustered and concentrated among rural minority populations.
Increasing agricultural productivity and declining natural increase in the Northern Great Plains exert enormous pressure on local labor markets and social service provision in the region. Some rural localities have responded with alternative economic development strategies, including gaming, an approach yielding mixed results.
The economic prosperity of the 1990s had pronounced effects on the demand for rural land, particularly in the Intermountain West, which witnessed some of the most dramatic population increases in the United States.
Recreational development has deleterious effects on the housing market for low and moderate income residents, but given the fact that this stems from economic growth rather than stagnation or decline, planned growth strategies could increase homeownership.
In 2004, W1001 organized and co-hosted the two-day Population Change and Rural Society Conference with the Economic Research Service (ERS). More than 120 people attended, included representatives from USDAs Rural Development mission area, FCA, CNNP, CSREES, and NASS; other Federal agencies, including GAO, FDIC, and HHS; staff from policy organizations, including Brookings Institution, Housing Assistance Council, Aspen Institute, Population Reference Bureau, Annie E. Casey Foundation, and Urban Institute, the Delta Regional Authority, and the North Dakota Farmers Union. The good attendance and wide representation among organizations, the posting of abstracts on the ERS website, the subsequent requests for full copies of the papers, and follow-up presentations at outreach conferences ensured that our demographic insights reached a wide audience.
Publication of the committees research in Population Change and Rural Society helped frame rural population debates among academics and policy makers because the book is the most comprehensive examination of recent demographic change in rural America. Over 800 citations to various chapters in this text have been noted on the web alone.
The committee‘s demographic findings were shared with many legislative bodies and numerous state, regional, and national stakeholder groups, including: U.S. House and Senate Agriculture Committees; U.S. House Veterans Affairs Subcommittee; offices of Senators Obama, Dorgan and Durbin; offices of Congressmen Hastert, Davis, Kirk, and Schakowsky; legislatures of Kansas, New York, North Dakota and Illinois; USDA‘s Rural Development mission area; Kids Count; Brookings Institution; National Committee on Rural Health; Utah Public Health Association; Utah Population Projections Committee; Western Governors‘ Association; New York Legislative Commission on Rural Resources; New York State Office for the Aging; State Society on Aging of New York; Association for Public Responsibility in Medicine and Research; and the American Association of Retired Persons.
Issues briefs developed from chapters in Population Change and Rural Society, along with contributions to the ERS briefing rooms and data products, facilitated wide distribution of our research results to those who can use the information in public decision making. A number of unanticipated sites, including university departments and policy organizations, have linked to the policy briefs.