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SPACE AND THE MEASUREMENT OF INCOME SEGREGATION
Author(s) -
Dawkins Casey J.
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
journal of regional science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.171
H-Index - 79
eISSN - 1467-9787
pISSN - 0022-4146
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9787.2007.00508.x
Subject(s) - outlier , index (typography) , measure (data warehouse) , space (punctuation) , econometrics , variety (cybernetics) , spatial ecology , computer science , statistics , mathematics , data mining , ecology , biology , world wide web , operating system
This paper proposes a new spatial ordering index that that can be used to quantify the dependence of a given pattern of income segregation on the spatial arrangement of neighborhoods. Unlike other spatial measures of income segregation proposed in the literature, the spatial ordering index is less sensitive to the presence of outliers, satisfies the “principle of transfers,” and is flexible enough to quantify a variety of spatial patterns of segregation. The index can be interpreted in terms of the ratio of two covariances. Properties of the proposed measure are demonstrated using an example from the city of Baltimore, Maryland.