The Hosei University Economic Review

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David Harvey

Statistical survey return information obtained from individua questionnaire forms returned by respondents in the course of survey operation used to have been regarded in statistical practices as a set of information which embodies in full measure characteristics inherent in the surveyed individual units. As individual units such as households, local units and establishments exist in the real field dimensioned by time and space, the obtained set of information, however, is also inevitably affected by time/space factors. David Harvey' s discussion on the "spatial languages" seems to be quite suggestive when one tries to assess the intensity of varied space-related factors which may affect the individual record information obtained through surveys. Harvey' s "relative spaces" can be translated as layers in GIS. The present author proposes in this paper to convert relative spaces into "substance language" in his terminology by linking layers with a set of coordinate information that locates individual statistical unit. Newly created varied sets of vector information which gives locational attributes inherent in respective spots may give appropriate measures to assess varied space-related factors' effects on the statistical survey return information. This paper will also discuss possibility of expanding individual statistical record information by adding space-related factors and thus to suggest the possible control of their effects in statistical analyses based on individual records.

103 経済学部・経済学研究科 ＞ 紀要 ＞ 経済志林 ＞ 81