Abstract
This paper, following the previous paper No.1 and No.2, reports the characteristics of "Central Settlement" in rural area through the investigation of volume on inhabitants' behavior. There are several types of "Central Settlement" in rural area such as central place of town area, "Kyuson" area or "Ooaza" area. In this paper, "Central settlement" means the central place in "Kyuson" district. The study is based on inhabitants' questionary, which had been conducted on "Tochigi-shi" and "Ryozen-cho" in 1982 and 1985. The main results are Follows : 1) The growing volume of inhabitants' behavior is approximately constant. 2) The circulating volume of inhabitants' behavior in Kyuson district is different by district's character. 3) There is little traveling volume of inhabitants' behavior among Kyuson districts except for concentration to town center. 4) Circulating volume of inhabitants' behavior is large in neighboring Kyuson district to town center and small in distant Kyuson district. 5) Both of old age and young generation's circulating volume are smaller than the mean volume of circulating volume. Old age generation's circulating volume caused by staying at own settlement and young age generation's one caused by flowing out to outside district. 6) There are 2 types of Kyuson district according the concentrating state of behavior, one is having single central settlement, the other is having plural central settlements. 7) The circulating volume of behavior is make up of 5 groups, "group buying", "group communication", "group sport and recreation", "group meeting" and "others", and the ratio of volume is approximately as follows ; "group buying" : "group communication" : "group sport and recreation" : "group meeting" =17:6:4:1〜15:5:6:1 8) The most influenced behavior to concentrating state to central settlement is "group buying". 9) Central settlement can be classified 3 types according to the state of concentration, single function, complex function and composite function.
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