西部地区民族人口城市化差异实证分析

本文以民族为基本单位,以2000年全国第五次人口普查资料为依据,运用计量经济学模型和方法,分析了中国西部地区51个民族的城市化水平差异及其影响因素。结果显示,西部地区各个民族的人口城市化率存在巨大差异,最大值与最小值之间相差近20倍,城市化水平的民族差异远大于其地区差异。文章分析了影响各民族城市化水平的主要因素,同时还发现,各民族人口的城市化率高低,与所在地区的城市化水平,以及所在地区的民族构成(汉族人口比例或少数民族人口比例)之间不存在明显的联系。

A Positivist Analysis of the Diversity of Ethnic Urbanization in Western China

This paper analyzes, through the modeland method of the econometrics, the difference of the urbanization levels of fifty-one ethno-nationalities in western China and the effect of the diversity, on the basis of the data of the fifth national census in 2000. The result of the analysisis that there is a great difference between the rates of the urbanization of the fifty ethno-nationalities. The maximal value is almost 20 times of the minimal one. The difference far exceeds that of the other regions. The paper analyzes the main factors that affect urbanization levels and discoversthat there is not an evident affiliation between the ethnic urbanization rates and the urbanization level or nationality composition (the rate of the Hans or other ethno-nationalities) of the areas where they living.