The article develops a model which explains the aging of local populations, expressed in terms of percent of the population over sixty-five years, in terms of the net movement of the young and the elderly, as well as socio-economic characteristics of the local population. The model is illustrated for data from Illinois counties for the period 1950–1960 and 1960–1970. The model represents the data for the 1960's more accurately than the data for the 1950's.
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