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Download full textMontgomery, Jim – 1998
Developed in Australia, the Griffith Service Access Frame (GSAF) is a model that uses the distance, size, and economic resources of a community to calculate a statistically valid score measuring a community's relative access to services. This score is then translated into Zones of Relative Access to those services. Quantifying access to services…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Community Attitudes, Disadvantaged, Foreign Countries
Peer reviewedGriffith, Dennis A. – Education in Rural Australia, 2003
A purely geographic classification is not the best way to measure rural disadvantage in Australia. A service access model is described that incorporates the following elements: population center size; distance, time, and cost of travel to the service center; and a measure of the economic capacity of residents to overcome the cost of travel.…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Classification, Disadvantaged, Foreign Countries
