Exploring the implications of changing census output geographies for the measurement of residential segregation: The example of Northern Ireland 1991-2001

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

Volumn 174, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-16

  Shuttleworth, I G ^a   Lloyd, C D ^a   Martin, D J ^b  

^a QUEEN'S UNIVERSITY BELFAST   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Census analysis; Modifiable areal unit problem; Output geographies; Residential segregation; Spatial statistics

Indexed keywords

EID: 78650867107     PISSN: 09641998     EISSN: 1467985X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-985X.2010.00647.x     Document Type: Article

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