Existing rurality categories cannot address the diverse socio-cultural, economic and environmental characteristics of non-metropolitan regions. While it has limitations, the dataset will enable a fine-grained examination of geographic, household and community factors and provide a unique longitudinal dataset over a five-year period.

The chief determinants of current well being were those reflecting individual level attributes and perceptions, rather than district-level rural characteristics. This has implications for strategies to promote well being within rural communities through enhancing community connectedness and combating social isolation in the face of major adversities such as drought.

letters to nature 658 NATURE | VOL 396 | 17 DECEMBER 1998 | www.nature.com T CO 317 K. Hence a conducting, magnetically ordered state is not found in Fe 2 OBO 3 as T C , T CO . The differences between the estimated activation energies for electron hopping in the chargedisordered (E a < 0 for T . T V ) and ordered (E a < 0:04 eV for T , T V ) 13 states of magnetite and those of Fe 2 OBO 3 (E a < 0:31 eV for E a < 0:35 eV for T . T CO are equal, showing that this small difference is essentially independent of spin alignment, although the ferromagnetic order in magnetite reduces both activation energies by 0.3 eV relative to those in paramagnetic Fe 2 OBO 3 .M