Demography is an inherently spatial science, yet application of spatial data and methods to demographic research has tended to lag that of other disciplines. In recent years there has been a rapid growth in interest in the addition of a spatial perspective in demography, and in part this growth...

The application of geographically weighted regression (GWR) – a local spatial statistical technique used to test for spatial nonstationarity – has grown rapidly in the social, health and demographic sciences. GWR is a useful exploratory analytical tool that generates a set of...