Ghettos of the mind: The empirical behaviour of indices of segregation and diversity

Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A: Statistics in Society

Volumn 170, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 405-424

  Simpson, Ludi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ethnic group; Index; Integration; Migration; Race; Segregation

Indexed keywords

EID: 34147204072     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2007.00465.x     Document Type: Article

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