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Suburbanisation in relation to education in the Tallinn metropolitan area
Author(s) -
Tammaru Tiit,
Leetmaa Kadri
Publication year - 2006
Publication title -
population, space and place
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.398
H-Index - 68
eISSN - 1544-8452
pISSN - 1544-8444
DOI - 10.1002/psp.444
Subject(s) - metropolitan area , geography , census , economic geography , redistribution (election) , demographic economics , social stratification , population , inequality , logistic regression , socioeconomics , demography , sociology , political science , economics , social science , statistics , mathematics , mathematical analysis , archaeology , politics , law
Significant changes occur in the social stratification order and spatial redistribution of population in countries in transition. One of the important dimensions in the changing social stratification order is related to the increased importance of education. Dominance of suburbanisation is an important dimension in spatial population change. The aim of the current article is to study these two important dimensions of social and spatial change by analysing suburbanisation with regard to the level of education of residential migrants in the Tallinn metropolitan area, Estonia. The study is based on census data from the year 2000 and it employs logistic regression to compare suburbanisers with stayers in Tallinn and its suburbs. The main findings indicate that suburbanisation reduces inequalities in the educational composition of people living in Tallinn and its suburbs on the one hand, but increases socio‐spatial segregation within the suburbs on the other. Copyright © 2006 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.