Research Reports
Database Development Plan for Korea Rural Statistics
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AuthorKim, Yonglyoul
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Publication Date2008.11.01
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This study is a preliminary research for building a statistics database on rural communities in Korea. It aims to lay down a basis for identifying the current state of affairs and changing trend of rural communities and for devising appropriate rural policies. A set of recommendations for database building requiring additional statistical information has been compiled. The recommendations are geared for detailed and systematic compilation of statistics on population, housing, regional economy and finance, regional agriculture, health and social welfare, education and culture, environment, land, social overhead capital, and regional community.
While it is anticipated that the development of rural statistics for identifying rural issues will have long lead times, the database development plan is expected to considerably improve the availability of data and information on small rural areas in Korea. Regional impacts and outcomes cannot be understood without access to better information and empirical evidence. In particular, there is a need for data to help explain and understand changes of population, housing, regional economy, regional finance, regional agriculture, health and social welfare, education and culture, environment, land, social overhead capital, and regional communities across Korea.
This research is broadly structured so that the chapters follow sequential stages in arriving at an agreed set of rural database development priorities. Chapter 2 presents a discussion on the complexities of Korean geography and definitions of rural Korea, regional statistics, rural statistics, and indicators related with rural statistics.
Chapter 3 outlines an overview of rural statistics in Korea and discusses problems of regional and rural statistics. Chapter 4 introduces comparisons between Korea and UK, USA, Australia, European Union, and Japan based on rural statistics. Chapter 5 describes user needs for rural statistics for the purposes of regional research and policy analysis. Data needs identified through user consultations and surveys are categorized broadly under the issues of population and housing, regional economy, regional finance, regional agriculture, health and social welfare, education and culture, environment, land, social overhead capital, and regional community. These categories are interdependent, and a combination of all data types may be required to inform specific issues.
Chapter 6 deals with a rural statistics database model and a set of database recommendations for rural statistics development to be undertaken by KREI (Korea Rural Economic Institute), together with those data needs that are proposed for further development in collaboration with other agencies. As it is beyond the capacity of KREI to provide all the data required in this multi-disciplinary field, across-agency agreements will be sought after with other major data producers to collaboratively develop and make available new data sources for regional and rural analysis.
Researchers: Kim Yong-lyoul and Kim Kyeong-duk
E-mail address: kimyl@krei.re.kr
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