The ed group contained four medium-sized and one sparsely populated municipality, while the ld group contained one suburban, one sparsely populated, one industrial, and two large municipalities.
A sprawling but sparsely populated municipality, it is infested with land mines.
The study participants were aged between 65 and 87 years and lived in Nordmaling, a small and sparsely populated municipality in the north of Sweden where "everybody knows everybody".
The relative risks of overweight and obesity were inversely related to population density and women living in sparsely populated municipalities had the highest risk.
ONP covers an area of 28,000 ha and is situated in the sparsely populated municipalities of Kuusamo and Salla in the provinces of Northern Ostrobothnia and Lapland.
The following categories were used in the abbreviated version: Stockholm area, Gothenburg area, Malmö area, larger municipalities, central district municipalities, densely populated municipalities, and sparsely populated municipalities.
"I trust them completely" At Knjazevac, a sparsely-populated municipality in eastern Serbia, a centre for children with disabilities allows the children and their parents to receive temporary care and specialist assistance.
Sociodemographic background was adjusted using three variables; father's or other guardian's education (high 17%, middle 16%, low 70%), respondent's family structure (both parents 77%, other 23%), and urbanisation level of residence (capital area 11%, large town 8%, small town 35%, village 31%, sparsely populated rural municipality 16%).
Fourteen patients residing in 32 sparsely populated mountain municipalities were excluded from the analysis because of difficulties related to exposure assessment (see following section).
Negative spatial cumulative causation brought about by the impacts of the shrinking primary and service sectors emerged in sparsely populated semi-peripheral municipalities, enforcing the regional polarization in demographic characteristics between growth centres and the poorest municipalities.
Geographical residence location was categorized as living in a medium-sized city (i.e. Umeå where the administrative center and a university are located), in a small city (Skellefteå or Lycksele, which are commercial and industrial centers), or in a rural area (small municipalities and sparsely populated areas).
