Overview
- This open access book introduces new perspectives for interpreting and evaluating segregation indices
- Clarifies the connections between segregation and group differences in residential outcomes
- Gives researchers the new option of estimating segregation index scores using models of individual residential attainments
Part of the book series: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis (PSDE, volume 42)
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Table of contents (17 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book introduces new methods for measuring and analyzing residential segregation. It begins by placing all popular segregation indices in the “difference of group means” framework wherein index scores can be obtained as simple differences of group means on individual-level residential attainments scored from area racial composition. Drawing on the insight that in this framework index scores are additively determined by individual residential attainments, the book shows that the level of segregation in a given city can be equated to the effect of group membership (e.g., race) on individual residential attainments. This unifies separate research traditions in the field by joining the analysis of segregation at the aggregate level with the analysis of residential attainments for individuals. Next it shows how segregation analysis can be extended by using multivariate attainment models to assess the impact of group membership (i.e., the level of segregation for a city) while including controls for other relevant individual characteristics (e.g., income, education, language, nativity, etc.). It then illustrates how one can use these models to quantitatively assess the extent to which segregation traces to impacts of group membership on residential attainments versus other factors such as group differences in income. The book then shows how micro-level attainment models can be used to study macro-level variation in segregation; specifically, by estimating multi-level models of individual residential attainments to assess how the effect of group membership (i.e., segregation index scores) vary with city characteristics. Finally, the book introduces refined versions of popular indices that are free of the vexing problem of upward bias. This improves the quality of segregation measurement directly at the level of individual cases and expanding the number of cases that can be safely included in empirical studies.
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: New Methods for Measuring and Analyzing Segregation
Authors: Mark Fossett
Series Title: The Springer Series on Demographic Methods and Population Analysis
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-41304-4
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and the Author(s) 2017
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-319-41302-0Published: 22 September 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-82318-8Published: 22 June 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-41304-4Published: 14 September 2017
Series ISSN: 1877-2560
Series E-ISSN: 2215-1990
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 334
Number of Illustrations: 40 b/w illustrations
Topics: Demography, Landscape/Regional and Urban Planning, Statistics for Social Sciences, Humanities, Law, Regional/Spatial Science