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Correction: An Example of Combining Expert Judgment and Small Area Projection Methods: Forecasting for Water District Needs Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2024-01-04 David Swanson, Tom Bryan, Mark Hattendorf, Kelly Comstock, Lauren Starosta, Robert Schmidt
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Linking Individuals to Areas: Protecting Confidentiality While Preserving Research Utility Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2023-11-28 Paul Norman, Jessie Colbert, Daniel J. Exeter
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Examining Spatial Heterogeneity and Potential Risk Factors of Childlessness Across 412 Districts of India: An Analysis of 4 Decades Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2023-10-06 Adrita Banerjee
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An Example of Combining Expert Judgment and Small Area Projection Methods: Forecasting for Water District Needs Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2023-08-10 David Swanson, Tom Bryan, Mark Hattendorf, Kelly Comstock, Lauren Starosta, Robert Schmidt
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The Role of Data Sample Uncertainty in Delineations of Core Based Statistical Areas and Rural Urban Commuting Areas Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2023-06-15 Christopher S. Fowler, John Cromartie
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Determinants of Fertility During the Fertility Transition in Estonia: A Spatial Analysis Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Mark Gortfelder, Hannaliis Jaadla
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Geographic Variation and Factors Associated with Breast Cancer Screening in India Using a Spatial Durbin Approach Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Nilima Nilima, Amitha Puranik, Siddharth Kaushik, Shesh Nath Rai
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Egalitarian Attitudes and Activity Spaces in Chitwan, Nepal Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Anna E. Shetler, Scott T. Yabiku
Connections between individuals’ sociodemographic characteristics and their social attitudes have been widely studied, but there has been less research on how individuals’ spatial patterns are related to attitudes. Studies that do incorporate space have focused on residential locations, neglecting spatial experience outside residential neighborhoods. To fill this gap, we test hypotheses relating multiple
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Ethnic/Racial Disparity in Mortality from COVID-19: Data for the Year 2020 in Brazil Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2023-01-16 Marina dos Santos, Júlia Oliveira Penteado, Rodrigo de Lima Brum, Alicia da Silva Bonifácio, Paula Florêncio Ramires, Diuster de Franceschi Gariboti, Ruana Michela Santos Cardoso, Flavio Manoel Rodrigues da Silva Júnior
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Small Area Estimation of Age-Specific and Total Fertility Rates in Bangladesh Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2023-01-10 Unnati Rani Saha, SumonKanti Das, Bernard Baffour, Hukum Chandra
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Quantile Regression of Childhood Growth Trajectories: Obesity Disparities and Evaluation of Public Policy Interventions at the Local Level Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2022-09-14 Kevin Konty, Stuart Sweeney, Sophia Day
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Modelling the Spatial Heterogeneity of Female-Male Ratio in West Bengal, India Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2022-06-09 Indrita Saha
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Examining Spatial Heterogeneity and Potential Risk Factors of Childhood Undernutrition in High-Focus Empowered Action Group (EAG) States of India Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2022-06-08 Pravat Bhandari, Ezra Gayawan
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Trends in the “Ecological Distance” of Ethnoracial Group Suburbanization in U.S. Metropolitan Areas, 1970–2019 Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2022-05-30 Jeffrey M. Timberlake, Aaron J. Howell
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A Spatial Approach to the Study of the Electoral Resurgence of the Extreme Right in Southern Spain Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2022-04-04 Ricardo Iglesias-Pascual, Federico Benassi, Virginia Paloma
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Identifying Geographical Heterogeneity in Associations between Under-Five Child Nutritional Status and Its Correlates Across Indian Districts Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2022-03-08 Monirujjaman Biswas
India has substantially reduced the burden of under-five child malnutrition over the last two decades. Despite this, it is still gigantic and differs remarkably across districts, while the demographic and socio-economic groups are most affected by it. This paper aimed to decrypt the place-specific spatial dependence and heterogeneity in associations between district-level nutritional status (stunting
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Conflict and Climate Factors and the Risk of Child Acute Malnutrition Among Children Aged 24–59 Months: A Comparative Analysis of Kenya, Nigeria, and Uganda Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2022-02-01 Kathryn Grace, Andrew Verdin, Molly Brown, Maryia Bakhtsiyarava, David Backer, Trey Billing
Acute malnutrition affects a sizeable number of young children around the world, with serious repercussions for mortality and morbidity. Among the top priorities in addressing this problem are to anticipate which children tend to be susceptible and where and when crises of high prevalence rates would be likely to arise. In this article, we highlight the potential role of conflict and climate conditions
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The Geography of Women’s Empowerment in West Africa Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2022-01-21 Jacqueline Banks, Stuart Sweeney, Wendy Meiring
Women’s empowerment has been a subject of interest because of its relevance to development and demography, particularly in West Africa. Women’s empowerment is typically conceptualized as an individual attribute of women, associated with socioeconomic and demographic characteristics. However, we hypothesize a geography of women’s empowerment in the West African region, where empowerment processes are
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Social Vulnerability and Childhood Health: Bayesian Spatial Models to Assess Risks from Multiple Stressors on Childhood Diarrhoea in Malawi Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2022-01-14 Lawrence N. Kazembe
Childhood diarrhoea accounts for over 15% of all under-five deaths in Africa. The disease is exacerbated by social vulnerability. This study operationalizes social vulnerability by using three indicators: water poverty, sanitation and assets, to capture social disadvantage, which measures individual or community resources to prevent or mitigate health effects. We particularly investigated the relationship
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Evaluating Alternative Implementations of the Hamilton-Perry Model for Small Area Population Forecasts: the Case of Australia Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2022-01-05 Tom Wilson, Irina Grossman
Small area population forecasts are widely used across the public and private sectors, with many users requiring forecasts broken down by sex and age group. The preparation of small area age-sex population forecasts across a whole country or State with a multiregional cohort-component model is usually a time-consuming and expensive task. It involves the purchase of large datasets, considerable amounts
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Race, Adolescent Exposure to Segregation, and Adulthood Residential Mobility into and out of Lower-Poverty Neighborhoods Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2021-11-09 Gabriel, Ryan, Leibbrand, Christine, Hess, Chris, Crowder, Kyle
Little research has sought to understand the association between adolescent exposure to segregation and Black-White differences in mobility into and out of neighborhoods of greater economic resources in adulthood. Prior research has typically adopted a narrow conception of neighborhood economic resources, specifying neighborhoods with poverty rates below 20% as non-poor vis-à-vis poor neighborhoods
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Violence in Stone: Confederate Monuments and Lynchings in the US South Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2021-10-20 Turner, Katie L., Binkovitz, Leah
This study examines whether the presence of Confederate monuments corresponds to experiences of historical anti-Black violence in the surrounding areas. At stake is not only the current debate around the removal of these monuments, but also broader links between such monuments and latent processes of White supremacy. We utilize three data sets for our analyses: data on Confederate monument locations
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Physical Spacing and Social Interaction Before the Global Pandemic Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2021-10-13 Creighton, Mathew, Capistrano, Daniel, Sorokowska, Agnieszka, Sorokowski, Piotr
Subsequent to the arrival of SARS-CoV-2 and emergence of COVID-19, policy to limit the further spread has focused on increasing distance between individuals when interacting, often termed social distancing although physical distancing is more accurate (Das Gupta and Wong in Canadian J Public Health 111:488–489, 2020; Gale in Is ‘social distancing’ the wrong term? Expert prefers ‘physical distancing
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Community Boosts Immunity? Exploring the Relationship Between Social Capital and COVID-19 Social Distancing Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2021-10-04 Gibbons, Joseph, Yang, Tse-Chuan, Oren, Eyal
The early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic required a dramatic change in social practices, including distancing from social settings, to limit its spread. While social capital has considerable potential in facilitating the adoption of these norms, it also comes with considerable limitations that potentially undermine its effectiveness. We draw upon recently released mobility data from Google, network
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More than Just Independent Subfields: An Introduction to a Special Issue on Race and Space Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2021-10-01 Heather A. O’Connell
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Decomposing County-Level Working-Age Mortality Trends in the United States Between 1999–2001 and 2015–2017 Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2021-08-24 Graetz, Nick, Elo, Irma T.
Studies have documented significant geographic divergence in U.S. mortality in recent decades. However, few studies have examined the extent to which county-level trends in mortality can be explained by national, state, and metropolitan-level trends, and which county-specific factors contribute to remaining variation. Combining vital statistics data on deaths and Census data with time-varying county-level
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Spatial Variation in Contraceptive Practice Across the Districts of India, 1998–2016 Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2021-08-19 Joshi, Shareen, Uttamacharya, Borkotoky, Kakoli, Gautam, Abhishek, Datta, Nitin, Achyut, Pranita, Nanda, Priya, Verma, Ravi
India is currently one of the most demographically diverse regions of the world. Fertility and mortality rates are known to show considerable variation at the level of regions, states and districts. Little is known however, about the spatial variations of the contraceptive usage—a critical variable that is relevant to fertility as well as health policy. This paper uses data from four national population-based
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Racial/Ethnic Residential Segregation, Socioeconomic Inequality, and Job Accessibility by Public Transportation Networks in the United States Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2021-08-06 Anderson, Kathryn Freeman, Galaskiewicz, Joseph
This paper examines the access that neighborhoods have to jobs via public transit, if it varies by race/ethnicity, and what difference it makes in terms of socioeconomic outcomes. Decades of research has argued that important sites of employment are often not located in or are inaccessible to racial/ethnic minority neighborhoods. Here, we examine this proposition and take into account how public transit
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The Spatial Structure and Local Experience of Residential Segregation Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2021-06-29 Elizabeth Roberto, Elizabeth Korver-Glenn
This study examines the extent to which road connectivity and physical barriers—such as highways, railroad tracks, and waterways—structure spatial patterns of racial and ethnic residential segregation and shape how segregation is locally experienced by residents. Our focus is on physical barriers that are also social boundaries—features of the built environment that reduce physical connectivity and
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Spatial Variations in Fertility Desire in West Africa Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2021-06-28 Ezra Gayawan, Fidelia Dake, Justin Dansou, Olusegun Sunday Ewemooje
Fertility in sub-Saharan Africa is among the highest globally and relatively higher in West Africa compared to the other sub-regions of Africa. While there have been extensive studies on fertility in West Africa, the underlying spatial variations with regard to within and cross-border variations among countries has received little attention. This study examined spatial variations in fertility desire
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Spatial Pattern of Multidimensional and Consumption Poverty in Districts of India Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2021-06-16 Guru Vasishtha, Sanjay K. Mohanty
Though studies on multidimensional poverty have been gaining research and programmatic attention, no attempt has been made to understand the association of multidimensional poverty with consumption poverty in India. Using data from the National Family Health Survey-4, 2015–16, this paper examined the association and spatial clustering of multidimensional and consumption poverty in the districts of
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Constructing Race and Ethnicity: “It Has to Do with Where You Are” Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2021-06-01 Nikita Carney
Drawing from the lived experiences of Haitian women in Boston and Montreal, this study illustrates how ethnography can augment understandings of race and place in demography by complementing quantitative analyses, showing how race is constructed across place through daily micro-interactions. Building on the work of demographers who examine how race shifts over time and place, this article challenges
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Looking Back, Looking Forward: Progress and Prospect for Spatial Demography. Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2021-05-20 Stephen A Matthews,Laura Stiberman,James Raymer,Tse-Chuan Yang,Ezra Gayawan,Sayambhu Saita,Sai Thein Than Tun,Daniel M Parker,Deborah Balk,Stefan Leyk,Mark Montgomery,Katherine J Curtis,David W S Wong
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Investigating Spatial Patterns and Determinants of Optimal Antenatal Care Attendance Among Pregnant Women in Nigeria Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2021-05-19 Paul Olopha, Olabimpe Aladeniyi, Olubimpe Oladuti
The World Health Organization in a bid to improve mother and child experience during pregnancy and delivery had recommended for optimal birth experience, at least four antenatal visits (ANC4+) in 2002 and recently an upward review to eight minimum antenatal visits (ANC8+) in 2016 to a health facility by pregnant women. This study therefore is to investigate the implications of these optimal recommendations
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Towards an Enhanced Understanding of Caste-Based Residential Segregation in Indian Cities: Reflections from Kolkata and Bengaluru Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2021-04-14 Ismail Haque, Dipendra Nath Das, Priyank Pravin Patel, Md Hasnine
As India urbanizes, residential patterns in her towns/cities have become progressively more complex in terms of caste, religion, income and other socioeconomic attributes. Many have conventionally used the Dissimilarity Index (an aspatial measure) to decipher such segregation patterns, yet seldom investigated the vital role of spatial scales and local geographies in shaping them. Utilizing neighborhood-level
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Modelling the Spatial Distribution and the Factors Associated with Under-Five Mortality in Nigeria Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2021-03-29 Adeniyi Francis Fagbamigbe, Chibuzor Christopher Nnanatu
Globally, the risk of a child dying before celebrating their fifth birthday is still high at 5.3 million deaths in 2018 alone. Nigeria is among the few countries that are yet to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal Target of keeping under-5 death to as low as 25 deaths per 1000 live births by 2030. A recent study found that the under-5 mortality rate in Nigeria is still high with 1 in 8 Nigerian
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Local Variation in Gendered Family Policy Use: Evidence of Local Gender Contracts? Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2021-03-17 Karen Haandrikman, Ann-Zofie Duvander, Natasha A. Webster
A central and unique part of Sweden’s family policy programme is care leave that working parents can use when children are sick and cannot attend (pre)school. The gender-equal policy entails that parents may divide the leave as they see fit. However, mothers and fathers do not share care leave equally and care leave patterns may vary geographically. The aim of this paper is to examine the interaction
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Across the Rural–Urban Universe: Two Continuous Indices of Urbanization for U.S. Census Microdata Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2021-03-15 Jonathan P. Schroeder, José D. Pacas
Microdata from U.S. decennial censuses and the American Community Survey are a key resource for social science and policy analysis, enabling researchers to investigate relationships among all reported characteristics for individual respondents and their households. To protect privacy, the Census Bureau restricts the detail of geographic information in public use microdata, and this complicates how
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Extreme Heat Related Mortality: Spatial Patterns and Determinants in the United States, 1979–2011 Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2021-02-03 Bryan Jones, Gillian Dunn, Deborah Balk
Extreme heat has been responsible for more deaths in the United States than any other weather-related phenomenon over the past decade. The frequency and intensity of extreme heat events are projected to increase over the course of this century. In this work, we examine historical patterns of extreme heat exposure and mortality in the continental United States. We examine spatial variation in the mortality
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Modelling determinants of geographical Patterns in the Marital Statuses of Women in Nigeria Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2021-02-03 Dorothy N. Ononokpono, Olukemi G. Adebola , Ezra Gayawan , Adeniyi F. Fagbamigbe
Marriage is an important social, cultural, and biological aspect of human life but is often affected by societal changes leading to differences in family formation and reproductive behaviour. Changes in marital patterns are component of transformations in a society’s social structure. Variations in marriage patterns exist within and across countries and over time. We examine the trends and spatial
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Comparative Spatial Segregation Analytics Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2021-01-24 Sergio Joseph Rey, Renan Cortes, Elijah Knaap
Comparative segregation analysis holds the potential to provide rich insights into urban socio-spatial dynamics. However, comparisons of the levels of segregation between two, or more, cities at the same point in time can be complicated by different spatial contexts as well as ethnic, racial, and class distributions. The extent to which differences in segregation between two cities is due to differences
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Spatial and Temporal Inequalities in Undernutrition Among Non-pregnant Women in Ghana: A Multilevel Analysis Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2021-01-08 Samuel H. Nyarko, Fikrewold Bitew, Hubert Amu
Nutritional status is an important determinant of women’s health and wellbeing. However, there appears to be a dearth of information on the spatial distribution of undernutrition among women in Ghana over time. We, therefore, examined the spatial and temporal variations in undernutrition among non-pregnant Ghanaian women. Drawing on data from the 2003, 2008, and 2014 Ghana demographic and health surveys
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Correction to: Population Grids for Analysing Long-Term Change in Ethnic Diversity and Segregation Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2021-02-08 Gemma Catney, Christopher D. Lloyd
At production stage, a misunderstanding about the presentation of Table 1b occurred.
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Population Grids for Analysing Long-Term Change in Ethnic Diversity and Segregation Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2020-12-21 Gemma Catney, Christopher D. Lloyd
Changes in the spatial patterns of ethnic diversity and residential segregation are often highly localized, but inconsistencies in geographical data units across different time points limit their exploration. In this paper, we argue that, while they are often over-looked, population grids provide an effective means for the study of long-term fine-scale changes. Gridded data represent population structures:
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Exploiting Fine-Scale Data in Modeling Migrants’ Settlement Patterns in Europe Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2020-12-01 Angelo Mazza
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Housing Values and the Residential Settlement of Migrants: Zooming in on Neighbourhoods in Italian Provincial Capitals Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2020-11-07 Sona Kalantaryan, Alfredo Alessandrini
This study looks at the relationship between housing values (prices and rents) and the residential settlement of migrants in different neighbourhoods in Italian provincial capitals. We exploit here the high spatial resolution dataset on the settlement of migrants developed within the Data for Integration (D4I) project. The D4I information on resident population characteristics was merged with a dataset
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Correction to: Residential Mobility, Gentrification and Neighborhood Change in Spanish Cities: A Post-Crisis Perspective Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2020-11-02 Antonio López-Gay, Andrea Andújar-Llosa, Luca Salvati
The presentation of figures 4, 5, 6, 8 and Appendix 1 in the original publication was incorrect. The correct figures are given below.
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Residential Mobility, Gentrification and Neighborhood Change in Spanish Cities: A Post-Crisis Perspective Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2020-09-24 Antonio López-Gay, Andrea Andújar-Llosa, Luca Salvati
Urban neighborhoods in Barcelona and Madrid are currently experiencing intense social transformations, with exclusive (and excluding) areas expanding (more or less rapidly) in resurgent central spaces. Recent literature suggests that, in parallel with urban expansion and latent re-urbanization, the most vulnerable population segments are being displaced and concentrated in suburban areas with worse
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Residential Segregation by Race and Ethnicity and the Changing Geography of Neighborhood Poverty Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2020-08-25 Chris Hess
Racial and ethnic segregation in U.S. metropolitan areas contributes to the existence of neighborhood poverty, with segregation typically conceptualized as occurring between central city and suburban neighborhoods due to the racially exclusive nature of suburbanization through much of the twentieth century. However, increasing suburbanization across race, ethnicity and socioeconomic status since around
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Correction to: Comparing Residential Segregation of Migrant Populations in Selected European Urban and Metropolitan Areas Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2020-08-20 Federico Benassi, Corrado Bonifazi, Frank Heins, Fabio Lipizzi, Salvatore Strozza
In above mentioned article first and family names in the author group have been published in reversed order.
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Comparing Residential Segregation of Migrant Populations in Selected European Urban and Metropolitan Areas Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2020-07-14 Federico Benassi, Corrado Bonifazi, Frank Heins, Fabio Lipizzi, Salvatore Strozza
Residential segregation is a well studied subject especially after the publication of the pioneering and seminal contribution of Duncan and Duncan (Am Sociol Rev 41:210–217, 1955). Considering the theoretical and methodological advances made since then, the contribution endeavours in describing and understanding the differences in residential segregation in an international perspective using 2011 population
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Revealing Multiscale Segregation Effects from Fine-Scale Data: A Case Study of Two Communities in Paris Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2020-07-13 Madalina Olteanu, Cecile de Bezenac, William Clark, Julien Randon-Furling
Fine-scale data is particularly important for the analysis of multiscalar segregation phenomena. Using dis-aggregated data from an EU data challenge, we show here how to apply a recently developed method that measures segregation at multiple scales and provides a visualization of the levels of segregation across scale and space. We illustrate the technique with results for two groups of citizen migrants
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Modelling Age Patterns of Internal Migration at the Highest Ages Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2020-06-25 Tom Wilson
Model migration age schedules have proved valuable to demographers for a range of applications for over 40 years. The original Rogers-Castro curve has been extended over time to include a retirement curve, a post-retirement curve, and a student peak. With demographic analyses extending to higher age groups than in the past due to population ageing, it is important for the model schedule to faithfully
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U.S. Fertility Decline and Recuperation Following the Great Recession by County-Level Industrial Composition of the Labor Force Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2020-06-16 Jeongsoo Kim, Lloyd B. Potter
Amid a persistent U.S. fertility decline since the Great Recession, fertility recuperation patterns by geographic regions were not homogeneous. This study hypothesizes that the geographic discrepancies in fertility patterns are attributable to different labor force compositions by the regions. We use data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Annual Estimates of the Resident Population County Components of
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Super Aging in South Korea Unstoppable but Mitigatable: A Sub-National Scale Population Projection for Best Policy Planning Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2020-06-12 Kee Whan Kim, Oh Seok Kim
This research portrays the spatial and temporal progression of super-aging in regions throughout South Korea. Using a single-year population projection considering gross domestic migration, this research identifies which regions will shortly become a super-aged society. A cohort-component method with a migrant pool model is applied. The county-level national population registration data (2000–2018)
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Hispanic Population Growth and Black–White Inequality: Changing Demographics, Changing Social Positions? Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2020-03-09 Heather A. O’Connell, Christina J. Diaz
Social scientists assert that the growth and redistribution of the Hispanic population has altered local racial and economic dynamics in the United States. Yet, comparably little work tests this perspective. We develop hypotheses based on two key sets of theories—the shifting racial/ethnic color line and (im)migrant incorporation into labor markets—to guide our analysis of the relationship between
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Under-Five Child Growth and Nutrition Status: Spatial Clustering of Indian Districts Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2020-03-02 Erich Striessnig, Jayanta Kumar Bora
Variation in human growth and the genetic and environmental factors that are influencing it have been described worldwide. The objective of this study is to assess the geographical variance of under-five nutritional status and its related covariates across Indian districts. We use the most recent fourth round of the Indian National Family Health Survey conducted in 2015–2016, which for the first time
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Review of Guangqing Chi and Jun Zhu: Spatial Regression Models for the Social Sciences Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2020-01-27 Corey S. Sparks
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Spatial Regression Analysis of Poverty in R. Spatial Demography Pub Date : 2019-11-19 Maria Kamenetsky,Guangqing Chi,Donghui Wang,Jun Zhu
Poverty has been studied across many social science disciplines, resulting in a large body of literature. Scholars of poverty research have long recognized that the poor are not uniformly distributed across space. Understanding the spatial aspect of poverty is important because it helps us understand place-based structural inequalities. There are many spatial regression models, but there is a learning