These factors include: fertility rates, proxies for location, and the political and cultural measures discussed below.

What does this proxies of location exactly mean? Is it the situation in the region where the country locates?

Any helps are welcomed

It´s not clear without a context but it might mean:

yöresel temsilciler

or

yöre temsilcileri

or even

delegeler

Hi si+

Thank you very much for your help.

Those meanings werent fit the paragraph.

So i think proxies for location means unpreventable situations and conditions that come out with the location of an economic unit.

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