Using Local Statistics to Portray Ethnic Residential Segregation in London

Ron Johnston, Michael Poulsen and James Forrest ()

The Centre for Market and Public Organisation from The Centre for Market and Public Organisation, University of Bristol, UK

Abstract: Much has been written about ethnic residential segregation in urban areas, almost all of it deploying single-index numbers to measure the degree of segregation. These give very little detailed appreciation of the extent to which different ethnic groups live apart from each other, and where. This paper suggests that a combination of measures derived from local spatial statistics, which identify the geography of clustering, and a typology of residential areas, which describes the population composition of each area, provides much greater insight into the nature and extent of segregation. Data for London in 2001 illustrate the potential of this approach.

Keywords: segregation; ethnicity; London; local statistics (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R1 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 13 pages
Date: 2009-03
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-geo, nep-mig and nep-ure
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