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Coronado, José María. Ureña, José María.

Statistical comparison was done through four aspects, first, population elaborated by the
national statistical institute, second and third, market share and touristic index elaborated
by Banesto and La Caixa banks and forth, housing numbers, building years and empty ones
elaborated by the national statistical institute and housing price elaborated by the Ministry of
Development.

Fariña, et.al. (2001) did the comparison of population during the first 5 years of HSR existence
(from 1992 to 1996), a very short period; while the market share and the touristic index was
only studied one year prior the existence of HSR (1991).

Serrano et al (2006) did the comparison of:

a. The demographic evolution in order to consider if the processes are different in three
different stages: first, before even knowing about HSR existence (1975 – 1986), second,
when decisions have been taken but the infrastructure is not finish (1986 – 1991), and
third, during the first ten years of existence (1991 – 2001).

b. The evolution of economic variables (market share and tourism indexes) between 1991
and 2002 – 2003.

c. The age, use and price of housing between 1991 and 2001.

The paper presented here is able to do the comparisons along more years but only with fewer
variables. At present, population data is available, market shares and touristic indexes data
have been discontinued, data about housing numbers, building years and empty ones are
available and finally housing prices data by municipality offered by the Ministry of development
have been discontinued. Thus statistical comparison cannot be undertaken for the long term in
many of the initially selected variables, it could only be done with the same data and sources
for population and housing (except prices). This paper, shows the initial results of a comparison
only of the population data.

3.1 Population Comparison over 25 years

The comparison of Ciudad Real with all the other selected provincial capitals (see Table 3
and Figure 4) shows that it has a total growth greater than all the other capitals except
Albacete. Albacete is the biggest one, which more than doubles Ciudad Real population
size.

During the period prior to the arrival of the HSR, when it was already being built (1981-1991)
Ciudad Real grew more than all the others, except one (Lugo). During the period just after the
HSR (1991-2001) it grew more than all of them, except one (Albacete). During the fourteen
years later (2001-2014) it grew more than all of them, except one (Cuenca).

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