“Part 1 Using the data in Figure 1 and 2 provided, what can you say about a) population change by local government area in Scotland for 2000-10 and b) change in the age structure of the Scottish population for 2000-10? (Word Count 497) TMA 03 Part 2 Examine the argument that the rural-urban divide is often overstated, based on your reading of the material in the Connected lives strand of Making Social Lives and the accompanying article Drugs fears for rural youngsters (Word Count 1198) (DD101 now DD102)”

Part One – On viewing the evidence it is believed that the main patterns in graphs are, council are as next to each other having some population changes with the 3 main cities Glasgow, Dundee and Aberdeen being of between -0% to 4% change in population. It also shows that areas neighbouring these cities are a higher population change possibly due to people moving for jobs but living just outside the cities where it has a lower living cost.

In contrast the graph (figure 2), shows evidence of lower births (-7%), more people moving to Scotland (+9%, +14%, +13%), with the exception of the 30-44 age group (-11%) and OAPs living longer (+14%). From this it would be believed that the lowered 30-44 age group is possibly due to emigration rather than deaths as the 60-74 and 75 and over groups have increased. Also with the increase in the 16-29 age group it would be believed that people …(short extract)