PUBLIC SERVICES OF RURAL SETTLEMENTS OF THE CENTRAL BLACK EARTH AS A DEMOGRAPHIC FACTOR

Abstract

The article is devoted to a very rare for demographic history, but very actual theme of rural communal amenities as a factor of population dynamics. 32 rural settlements of 8 districts of Voronezh, Lipetsk and Tambov regions with multi-apartment housing were studied. The authors, using demographic and communal statistics, tried to show the dependence of the successful movement of the population of rural settlements in three regions of the Central Chernozem region on the provision of multi-apartment housing and communal amenities. Various quantitative methods were used in the work: not only simple arithmetic, but also methods for calculating the paired correlation of demographic and communal indicators. The use of these methods revealed only one dependence: the dependence of the growth of the number of residents of rural settlements on the availability of multi-apartment housing provided with communal amenities. Close correlations between changes in the population of settlements and the availability of certain types of amenities did not appear. The quantitative methods used in the article showed insufficient data for broad conclusions for only three dozen localities. The assumption is made about the incompleteness of the site's information on housing and communal amenities reforms for individual utilities and the need to attract additional sources.

Keywords

• rural settlements
• demography
• housing and communal services
• quantitative methods