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Demography (1985) 22 (4): 603–609.
Published: 01 November 1985
...Daniel T. Lichter Abstract By presenting race-specific population concentration indexes for U.S. counties for the 1950–1980 period, this paper updates and extends previous analyses of 19001974 patterns of population concentration by Duncan et al. (1961) and Vining and Strauss (1977). Declines...
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Demography (2016) 53 (3): 675–697.
Published: 14 April 2016
... quotient indexes for one-person households indicated that the concentration of these households is relatively higher in the inner cities of metropolitan areas and the outskirts of the Seoul metropolitan region. Meanwhile, the distribution patterns of the relative concentration levels for one-person...
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Demography (2020) 57 (3): 979–1005.
Published: 22 May 2020
... of the concentration of infant mortality among disadvantaged mothers thus provides important clues for improving birth outcomes. We develop the infant mortality disadvantage index (IMDI) to measure such concentration. Using the 1983–2013 Birth Cohort Linked Birth and Infant Death data, we show that although the IMDI...
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Demography (2004) 41 (3): 443–464.
Published: 01 August 2004
... in under-five mortality even as levels of education for women increased and inequality in schooling fell. 14 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2004 2004 Concentration Index Household Wealth Socioeconomic Inequality Wealth Quintile Paulo State References Abranches...
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Demography (2010) 47 (3): 777–800.
Published: 01 August 2010
... in children’s achievement. Neighborhood economic status appears to be strongly associated with children’s skills acquisition. 27 1 2011 © Population Association of America 2010 2010 Concentration Index Mathematics Achievement Lorenz Curve Socioeconomic Inequality Immigrant Concentration...
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Demography (2004) 41 (1): 37–59.
Published: 01 February 2004
... to nested geographic levels. We measured segregation for metropolitan America using the Theil index, which is additively decomposed into contributions of regional, metropolitan, center city–suburban, place, and tract segregation. This procedure distinguishes whether groups live apart because members cluster...
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Demography (1989) 26 (3): 373–391.
Published: 01 August 1989
... © Population Association of America 1989 1989 Metropolitan Area Concentration Index Central Business District Residential Segregation Areal Unit References Bean , F. D. , & Tienda , M. ( 1987 ). The Hispanic Population of the United States . New York : Russell...
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Demography (2015) 52 (3): 1025–1034.
Published: 20 March 2015
... ( www.socialexplorer.com ). Following the procedures of Massey and Denton ( 1989 ), we measured unevenness using the black-white dissimilarity index, isolation using the P* black isolation index, clustering using the black-white spatial proximity index, concentration using the relative concentration index...
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Demography (2007) 44 (3): 539–562.
Published: 01 August 2007
... concentration of jobless men (Farley et al. 2000; Mouw 2000; Sugrue 1996; Wilson 1987, 1996). The studies of larger, more-representative samples of metro- politan areas have employed measures (such as the index of dissimilarity, isolation index, and concentrated male joblessness rate) that fail to capture other...
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Demography (1979) 16 (4): 553–563.
Published: 01 November 1979
...- mension will be measured by computing, within each urban area, the percentage of minority population residing within the central city. This measure will be called the index of urban concentration. SOURCE OF DATA This paper is based on data drawn from the Fourth Count Summary Tapes, File A, of the 1970...
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Demography (2001) 38 (3): 391–409.
Published: 01 August 2001
... generates a concep- tual equation (with hypothesized signs in parentheses): LANG = f [Age at migration Years since migration Education Married before migration Married after migration Children Linguistic Distance Geographic Distance Minority Language Concentration Index Refugee Colony The estimating...
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Demography (2019) 56 (6): 2169–2191.
Published: 11 November 2019
... be exacerbated by the presence of other forms of segregation, such as the spatial clustering of black neighborhoods or the location of black neighborhoods in relatively small, concentrated geographic areas. Therefore, it is important to investigate the index of dissimilarity in the context of other measures...
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Demography (2000) 37 (1): 29–40.
Published: 01 February 2000
...; with economic attractiveness the correlation is .21. Conceptually, concentration indexes the chance that any given potential partner will be an educa- tionally homogamous or hypergamous match versus a hypo- gamous match; the sex ratio reflects competition or imbal- ance between women and men of a specified...
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Demography (1984) 21 (1): 35–40.
Published: 01 February 1984
...- centration. The other measure-known as the co- efficient of concentration (Kendall and Stuart, 1963), the Gini index (Duncan and Duncan, 1955), segregation index No.3 (Jahn et aI., 1947), the concentra- tion ratio (Duncan, 1957) and the coeffi- cient of evenness or association (Wright, 1937)-computes...
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Demography (2000) 37 (4): 449–459.
Published: 01 November 2000
... in the selected cities. The index of dissimilarity indicates high segregation of poor blacks and moderate separation of poor Asians from the nonpoor population. We tested the effects of three major structural factors—racial and ethnic segregation, income segregation, and urban redevelopment—and found that racial...
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Demography (2014) 51 (6): 2281–2306.
Published: 26 November 2014
... for commuting patterns that influence concentration. We refer to this as our shared commute index. For the average worker, there is not a strong association between the tract of the employer and particular tracts of residence: the mean for this variable is only 0.3 % for immigrants and 0.5 % for natives...
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Demography (1997) 34 (2): 251–262.
Published: 01 May 1997
... factors we, of course, would never expect all streams to have equal volumes of migrant flow. One use for an index of spatial concentration is to give an indication of shifts in the overall geographic patterns of flow in a migra- tion system. Whereas the geographic patterns of migration can change rather...
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Demography (1996) 33 (4): 395–412.
Published: 01 November 1996
... poor people lived in poor or very poor neighborhoods. Elsewhere Mitchell Eggers and I argue that the p* isola- tion index popularized by Stanley Lieberson (1980, 1981) provides a reliable and accurate summary measure of pov- erty concentration (Massey and Eggers 1990). This index gives the rate...
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Demography (2004) 41 (1): 23–36.
Published: 01 February 2004
... al. 1996). These five dimensions are evenness, exposure, concentration, centralization, and clustering. For ease of interpreta- tion, we selected a single index for each type of segregation.2 Evenness involves the differential distribution of the subject population. The indexes within this dimension...
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Demography (2018) 55 (5): 1803–1828.
Published: 27 September 2018
... distribution . Population Index , 52 , 198 – 221 . 10.2307/3644339 . Whitehead , C. , & Scanlon , K. (Eds.). ( 2007 ). Social housing in Europe . London, UK : London School of Economics and Political Science . Wilson , K. L. , & Portes , A. ( 1980 ). Immigrant...
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