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Evenness measures of segregation compare the spatial distributions of different groups among units in a metropolitan area. Segregation is smallest when majority and minority populations are evenly distributed. The most widely used measure of evenness is the dissimilarity index.
Nov 21, 2021
Abstract: Segregation measures are useful tools for the analysis of patterns, causes and effects of residential segregation. However, most of empirical ...
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We argue that there are two primary conceptual dimensions to spatial residential segregation—spatial exposure (or spatial isolation) and spatial evenness (or ...
For the proximity-based measures, a value of 1.0 indicates absence of segregation, while values of P greater than 1.0 indicate clustering.
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Segregation involves more than one population group, and segregation measures quantify how different population groups are distributed across space.
Jun 29, 2021 · The segregation measure points us to locations where the built environment facilitates both spatial disconnection and social division, but it ...
Evenness measures of residential segregation, like the Dissimilarity Index and the Gini Index, compare the spatial distribution of different groups among units ...
The method addresses the limitations of current approaches by integrating features of the built environment into the measurement of segregation and analyzing ...
The measurement of residential segregation is generally based on indices that do not appropriately take into account the spatial patterning of the phenomena ...
In principle, evenness and isolation are the two distinct dimensions of segregation that capture the spatial patterns of population groups. To portray people's ...