Measures of Ordinal Segregation
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- To develop measures of segregation that are appropriate when either the groups or organizational units are defined by ordered categories. These methods allow the measurement of segregation among groups defined by ordered educational attainment categories or among ordered occupational categories, for example. Approach: I define a set of desirable properties of such measures; develop a general approach to constructing such measures; derive three such measures; and show that these measures satisfy the required properties. Originality: Traditional methods of measuring segregation focus on the measurement of segregation among groups defined by nominal categorical variables (e.g., race, gender) among organizational units also defined by nominal categorical units (e.g., schools, neighborhoods). Such methods are not appropriate to the measurement of occupational segregation, for example. The methods developed here are widely applicable and appropriate for such cases.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Date created | 2009 |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Reardon, Sean |
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Subjects
| Subject | segregation |
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| Genre | Article |
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