While academic research on neighbourhood change has developed over the past 30 years, its measurement is often technical and complex, hampering knowledge translation of academic research to wider audiences. Based on our research on neighbourhood change in Atlantic Canadian cities, we have developed two “simple” indexes of neighbourhood change. We document the steps to creating the simple indexes and discuss what decisions are made along the way. We then compare results of the two indexes with a mean-centred index that is commonly used for academic audiences. This is done to assess how simpler methods perform compared to one that is considered more sophisticated. Using the 2006 and 2016 Canadian Census data, we apply each of these neighbourhood change indexes to four Atlantic Canadian cities. Results indicate some similarities between the simple indexes and the mean-centred index. We discuss the methodological and practical implications of the results to help facilitate knowledge translation of academic research for urban planners and NGOs.

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简单的邻域变化索引的力量：挑战创建索引没有简单性的看法

尽管过去 30 年来有关社区变化的学术研究得到了发展，但其衡量方法通常是技术性的和复杂的，阻碍了将学术研究的知识转化为更广泛的受众。根据我们对加拿大大西洋城市邻里变化的研究，我们开发了两个“简单”的邻里变化指数。我们记录了创建简单索引的步骤，并讨论了在此过程中做出的决策。然后，我们将这两个指数的结果与学术受众常用的以均值为中心的指数进行比较。这样做是为了评估更简单的方法与被认为更复杂的方法相比如何执行。使用 2006 年和 2016 年加拿大人口普查数据，我们将这些邻里变化指数中的每一个应用于加拿大大西洋的四个城市。结果表明，简单指数和以均值为中心的指数之间存在一些相似之处。我们讨论了结果的方法和实践意义，以帮助促进城市规划者和非政府组织学术研究的知识转化.