Relevance of Individual-Level Residential Outcomes for Describing Segregation

Mark Fossett
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Mark Fossett: Texas A&M University, Department of Sociology

Chapter Chapter 12 in New Methods for Measuring and Analyzing Segregation, 2017, pp 195-205 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The new options for segregation analysis introduced here suggest a new basis for evaluating segregation indices – the substantive relevance of the individual-level residential outcomes registered by the indices. Three of the segregation indices considered here – G, D, and S – have been used widely in empirical analyses for more than five decades and each has been reviewed many times in methodological studies. Until now little attention has been given to the substantive relevance of the individual-level residential outcomes each index registers. In this chapter I argue that it is instructive to consider how indices differ on this important point of comparison.

Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-41304-4_12

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