Pew Research Center received invaluable advice in developing the questionnaire and exploring definitions of urban, suburban and rural communities from Katherine J. Cramer, Professor of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison; Jed Kolko, Chief Economist, Indeed; Whitney Kimball Coe, Director, National Programs at the Center for Rural Strategies and Coordinator of the National Rural Assembly; Bill Bishop, Founding Co-Editor and Contributing Editor, Daily Yonder; and John Iceland, Professor of Sociology and Demography, Pennsylvania State University.

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