Measuring Residential Segregation With the ACS: How the Margin of Error Affects the Dissimilarity Index.

The American Community Survey (ACS) provides valuable, timely population estimates but with increased levels of sampling error. Although the margin of error is included with aggregate estimates, it has not been incorporated into segregation indexes. With the increasing levels of diversity in small a...

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Published in:	Demography (Springer Nature) Vol. 54; no. 1; pp. 285 - 310
Main Authors:	Napierala, Jeffrey, Denton, Nancy
Format:	journal article
Published:	Springer Nature Feb2017
Subjects:	United States Housing discrimination American Community Survey Segregation Census Ethnic groups Population Residential patterns Sampling errors Confidence intervals Research evaluation
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