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II. STATISTICAL ARMS OF LOS AHOILIS GOUHTY
At the same time as the Los Angeles County Regional
Planning Commission established bonndaries for census
tracts it also established statistical areas, with 93 such
areas in the County. Boundaries of statistical areas
followed, without deviation, the boundaries of the outer
census tracts contained therein.^
Starting in 1940, the Regional Planning Commission
published quarterly estimates of population for each of the
statistical areas. The writer obtained these population
estimates for January, April, July, and Cctober for each of
the ensuing years, with the exception of 1951 and 1952, for
which only the January figures were available. Just after
January, 1951, the population and dwelling unit estimates
were discontinued until January, 1952, and then discontinued
again until January, 1953*5
F^en though the Wnited States decennial census of
population was taken in April, 1950, the January, 1951
data, of the Regional Planning Commission, did not reflect
fully corrections in accordance with the census figures.
^«Los Angeles County Census Tracts,* loo, cit.
^"Population and Dwelling Units," Regional Planning Commission, Los Angeles (CLoous ntAyn,g el1e9s5:1 ),
No. 37*
Object Description
| Title | An analytical study of the physical distribution of population in Los Angeles County, 1946-1956 |
| Author | Van Loan, Wallace Warner |
| Degree | Master of Business Administration |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Business Administration |
| School | School of Commerce |
| Date defended/completed | 1957-08 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Highman, Arthur |
| Abstract | During the past three decades there has been an increasing interest in population -- its numbers, its make-up or composition, its distribution in space, and the changes therein, and its growth. This interest in population is not misplaced as the population faots and changes are most intimately bound up with the immediate welfare of individuals, and from a broader standpoint with the masses. Also, reliable information must be on hand because it is essential to effective administration and appraisal of many activities of government. Varied information on population growth and its geographic distribution is also needed by the business community, and by civic and welfare organizations. All these must base their future activities, in some part, on projections of future population, and its distribution. A considered appraisal of underlyingrelationships and trends, based upon careful evaluation of past and present, is basic to projection of the future.; Statement of the problem. The purpose of this paper is to determine whether a mathematical relationship exists between population density growth and/or growth in Los Angeles County over the years and distance from the Central Business District .; Importance of the study. Many of the major decisions made by government, business men, and others, depend upon express or implied forecasts of population and its distribution.; Governmental projections are related to provision of utilities, schools, highways, etc, From the viewpoint of business, projections are basic to estimating needs for office buildings, retail stores, restaurants, and other services. Community service organizations, too, depend on projections for estimating future needs for their activities. |
| Keyword | Sociology, Demography; Geography; expansion; population forecasting; urbanization; census tracts; statistical areas; quadrants; population growth; rate of growth |
| Geographic subject (county) | Los Angeles |
| Geographic subject (state) | California |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Coverage date | 1946/1956 |
| Language | English |
| Format (aacr2) | xi, 138 leaves : ill. ; 29 cm. |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Digitized by ProQuest |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m3 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Van Loan, Wallace Warner |
| Physical access | The author retains rights to his/her dissertation, thesis or other graduate work according to U.S. copyright law. Electronic access is being provided by the USC Libraries in agreement with the author, as the original true and official version of the work, but does not grant the reader permission to use the work if the desired use is covered by copyright. It is the as rights holder, who must provide use permission if such use is covered by copyright. |
| Repository name | University of Southern California Digital Library |
| Repository address | USC Digital Library, University of Southern California, University Park Campus, Los Angeles, California 90089, USA |
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| Filename | EP43516.pdf |
| Archival file | Volume6/EP43516.pdf |
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| Title | An analytical study of the physical distribution of population in Los Angeles County, 1946-1956. - Page 29 |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 16 II. STATISTICAL ARMS OF LOS AHOILIS GOUHTY At the same time as the Los Angeles County Regional Planning Commission established bonndaries for census tracts it also established statistical areas, with 93 such areas in the County. Boundaries of statistical areas followed, without deviation, the boundaries of the outer census tracts contained therein.^ Starting in 1940, the Regional Planning Commission published quarterly estimates of population for each of the statistical areas. The writer obtained these population estimates for January, April, July, and Cctober for each of the ensuing years, with the exception of 1951 and 1952, for which only the January figures were available. Just after January, 1951, the population and dwelling unit estimates were discontinued until January, 1952, and then discontinued again until January, 1953*5 F^en though the Wnited States decennial census of population was taken in April, 1950, the January, 1951 data, of the Regional Planning Commission, did not reflect fully corrections in accordance with the census figures. ^«Los Angeles County Census Tracts,* loo, cit. ^"Population and Dwelling Units," Regional Planning Commission, Los Angeles (CLoous ntAyn,g el1e9s5:1 ), No. 37* |
