Shrinking Regions in a Shrinking Country: The Geography of Population Decline in Lithuania 2001–2011

Table 3

Linear regression model of percentage of population change at the seniūnija level ().

	⁢Model 1		⁢Model 2		⁢Model 3		⁢Model 4
Sociodemographic characteristics
Percentage of working-age population, 2001	1.192		0.748		−0.224	−0.079	−0.314
Percentage of households with children, 2001			0.513		0.879		0.979
Socioeconomic characteristics
Percentage of university education, 2001					0.246		0.291
Change in the percentage of university education, 2001–2011					2.661		2.031
Percentage of employed, 2001							0.116
Percentage of employment in business services, 2001							1.475
Change in the percentage of employment in business services, 2001–2011							5.448
Percentage of high-ranking occupation, 2001							−0.346
Constant	−87.676		−78.899		−51.620		−52.557
	0.177		0.215		0.461		0.533
(df), significance	544 (1), 0.000		543 (2), 0.000		541 (4), 0.000		537 (8), 0.000
Residual sum of squares (total 107 440)	88 449		84 339		57 961		50 125

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