Footnote
1. Two definitions of rural territories are used in this review: 1) The OECD Regional Typology, based on population density, which defines predominantly rural regions ( PR), intermediate regions ( IN) and predominantly urban regions ( PU) according to the share of population that lives in areas of less than 150 inhabitants (more than 50%, 50% to 15%, and less than 15%, respectively). 2) The Scottish Executive Urban Rural Classification, based in population settlements and remoteness which classifies as rural those settlements with a population of less than 3,000 inhabitants and classifies as accessible those that are within less than 30 minutes from an urban centre (of at least 10,000 inhabitants) and as remote otherwise. Other categories of this classification (under its 6-fold version, the one used in this report) are Accessible and Remote Small Towns (3,000-10,000 inhabitants and same remoteness criteria as rural), Urban Areas (10,000-125,000) and Large Urban Areas (125,000+). The OECD definition is used mostly for cross-country comparison, the Scottish Executive's definition for finer analysis of Scottish trends.