Tag: Measurement

Segregation literature review

Projects, Urban Segregation and Inequality

In this project we were aiming to understand how segregation is defined and measured. In particular, we were interested in the dimensions of segregation that different measures are trying to capture, and the pros and cons of different measurement approaches. The review has a critical element to it in that we sought to ascertain whether a segregation index is measuring

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Quantifying uncertainty in segregation measurement

Projects, Urban Segregation and Inequality

In the vast literature on segregation measurement, only a handful of papers attempt to address the issue of inference – computing confidence intervals for example for the index of dissimilarity and related measures. Quantifying uncertainty is important if we are to address basic questions about whether there have been genuine changes in segregation over time or between cities. For example,

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