DIGITAL ARCHIPELAGO

‘La localización de la población y la actividad en España durante el siglo XX; estudio de su evolución e implicaciones’

Economy and Society

Demographic Change, Family and Migration Processes | Capitalization and Growth

2003

Describing and analysing the dynamics of population location provides a key input for territorial zoning policies and the planning of infrastructures and services. With this need in mind, the research project sets out to analyse the location patterns of the Spanish population in the years 1900-2001, with the municipality as the unit of measurement.

DIRECTOR

Francisco Pérez García

RESEARCH TEAM

Francisco Pérez García

COLLABORATING INSTITUTIONS

Instituto Valenciano de Investigaciones Económicas (Ivie)

DESCRIPTION

The aim is to evaluate the processes of demographic agglomeration and dispersion in Spain and to examine how they relate to the location of economic activity. The project has a three-stage structure: creation of a homogeneous database of Spanish municipalities sourced from the population censuses of the National Statistics Office; identification of development trends in territorial location and analysis of agglomeration processes and saturation symptoms in major urban centres and, finally, connecting this demographic information with the distribution of economic activity at local, provincial and regional level.

The results will be of use in studying infrastructure and service needs in the public (transport, healthcare, education, social services) and private domains.