articles: A typology of community opportunity and vulnerability in metropolitan Australia

Patrick Mullins (), Robert Stimson (), Kevin O'Connor () and Scott Baum ()
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Patrick Mullins: Department of Sociology, Anthropology and Archaelogy, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 4072
Robert Stimson: School of Geography, Planning and Architecture, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 4072
Kevin O'Connor: Department of Geography and Environmental Sciences, Monash University, Clayton, Victoria, Australia, 3168
Scott Baum: School of Geography, Planning and Architecture, University of Queensland, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia, 4072

Papers in Regional Science, 2001, vol. 80, issue 1, 45-66

Abstract: A multivariate model using hierarchical clustering and discriminant analysis is used to identify clusters of community opportunity and community vulnerability across Australia's mega metropolitan regions. Variables used in the model measure aspects of structural economic change, occupational change, human capital, income, unemployment, family/household disadvantage, and housing stress. A nine-cluster solution is used to categorise communities across metropolitan space. Significant between -city variations in the incidence of these clusters of opportunity and vulnerability are apparent, suggesting the emergence of marked differentiation between Australia's mega metropolitan regions in their adjustments to changing economic and social conditions.

Keywords: Socio-economic performance; community opportunity and vulnerability; metropolitan regions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001-01-16
Note: Received: 15 October 1999
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