The New Zealand index of neighbourhood social fragmentation: Integrating theory and data

Environment and Planning A

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 972-988

  Ivory, Vivienne ^a   Witten, Karen ^b   Salmond, Clare ^c   Lin, En Yi ^b   You, Ru Quan ^b   Blakely, Tony ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^b MASSEY UNIVERSITY   (New Zealand)

^c NONE   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

Deprivation; Neighbourhood; Principal components analysis; Social capital; Social cohesion; Social fragmentation

Indexed keywords

CENSUS; FRAGMENTATION; HOMEOWNERSHIP; NEIGHBORHOOD; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SOCIAL CAPITAL; SOCIAL THEORY; THEORETICAL STUDY; URBAN SOCIETY;

NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 84864244005     PISSN: 0308518X     EISSN: 14723409     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1068/a44303     Document Type: Article

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