Measuring segregation at the micro level: An application of the M measure to multi-ethnic residential neighbourhoods in Amsterdam

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie

Volumn 99, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 329-347

  Deurloo, Marinus C ^a   De Vos, Sjoerd ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Amsterdam; Census analysis; M measure; Micro level; Postcodes; Segregation

Indexed keywords

EID: 47649106402     PISSN: 0040747X     EISSN: 14679663     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9663.2008.00465.x     Document Type: Article

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