A Revaluation of Indexes of Residential Segregation*
作者:
Christopher Winship,
期刊:
Social Forces
(OUP Available online 1977)
卷期:
Volume 55,
issue 4
页码: 1058-1066
ISSN:0037-7732
年代: 1977
DOI:10.1093/sf/55.4.1058
出版商: The University of North Carolina Press
数据来源: OUP
摘要:
New criteria for indexes of residential segregation are developed. It is argued that a pattern of random segregation rather than complete desegregation should be used as a baseline for measuring segregation. It is shown that any index whose relationship to one baseline is independent of the proportion black in a city, necessarily has a dependent relationship with respect to the other baseline. The index of dissimilarity is adjusted to serve as a measure of deviation from random segregation. Eta-square, which was shown by Duncan and Duncan to depend on the proportion black, is shown to be independent of the proportion black when random segregation is used as a baseline. It is argued that segregation should be measured from a situation of complete desegregation when its effects are of concern, but that it should be measured from random segregation when its causes are being analyzed.
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