Yamagata Needs Working Places. Medical Workers Cure the Lone Old.
Statistical survey discovered that Yamagata economy is divided into traditional and city life. Yamagata needs working places for commercial and manufacturing activity. Increasing the number of medical workers may cure the problem of the lone old in traditional life style.
山形県の経済は伝統的生活と都会的生活に分断されている。山形県には商業、製造業の事業所の増加が必要。独居老人問題もあるが、医療関係の労働人口を増やすことで解決可能。
We selected 121 factors from eStat data and made network analysis where factors connect each other with correlation coefficients.
We focused on 35 Yamagata cities from the Japan network analysis.
Traditional and City Life
We progressed network analysis of 121 factors on Yamagata cities. The factor network of Yamagata shows the factors are mainly divided into 2 separate regions in traditional (left) and city life (right).
The Old in Traditional Life
The left region indicates traditional life where majority is old people including school teachers, farmers, and manufacturing workers.
The City Life
The right region shows the city life since it has factors of nuclear family, crime rate, population density, and total taxpayer income price.
Top 10 of Betweeness
An statistical index of between indicates global hidden connectivity among all the network system. The following is top 10 of betweeness in Yamagata.
Factor Description Betweenness office working place 859.1 maker_employee employee in manufacturing 633.1 family_senior_single family of a single old 507.7 worker_medic.log worker in medical service 501.0 worker_2 worker in manufacturing 398.5 office_2 manufacturing working place 359.1 family_nucl_spouse nuclear family of husband & wife 342.9 family_trans family in 2005 317.5 merchant_office commercial office 304.0 worker_maker.log worker in manufacturing 289.5
More Working Place and Medical Workers for Yamagata
Yamagata has clearly separate structure of traditional and city life style. As shown in the betweenness list, manufacturing working places of high betweenness are critical factors connecting traditional life with city life as hubs. Increasing the manufacturing working place may activate economy in Yamagata.
There is a problem of the lone old in traditional world. Medical worker is also a critical factor in Yamagata. Increasing the number of medical worker will solve the lone old problem because it directly links to the lone old.
We recommend two policy of increasing working places and medical workers for the activation of Yamagata prefecture. We hope policy makers will utilize this network result to activate Yamagata's economy.
