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Housing Patterns Working Papers
Housing Patterns Working Papers
Working papers are intended to make results of Census Bureau research available to others and to encourage discussion on a variety of topics. They have not undergone a review and editorial process generally accorded official Census Bureau publications.
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View the list of working papers by year.
Working Paper
Peer Review of Racial and Ethnic Residential Segregation in the U.S.
The Census Bureau established an independent peer review panel of five members, selected by the President of the Population Association of America.
Working Paper
The Effects of Using Newly-Defined Metropolitan Area Boundaries
Differences in index scores for 2000 were very small when calculated for metropolitan areas defined in 2003 and for those calculated using 1999 definitions.
Working Paper
The Effects of Using Census Block Groups Instead of Census Tracts
Residential housing patterns usually describe the distribution of different groups across units within a larger area.
Working Paper
Racial and Ethnic Residential Housing Patterns in Places: 2000
While research has been conducted on racial and ethnic residential patterns in metropolitan areas, such patterns in “places” have received much less attention.
Working Paper
Class Differences in African American Residential Patterns: 1990-2000
We examine changing residential patterns of African Americans of different income, occupational, and educational categories using the index of dissimilarity.
Working Paper
Measurement of Segregation by the U.S. Bureau of the Census
Residential segregation has been a prominent topic in social science since the great sociologist Ernest Burgess (1928.)
Working Paper
Beyond Black and White
Whether greater racial and ethnic diversity in the United States is being accompanied by greater integration remains unclear.
Working Paper
Racial and Ethnic Residential Segregation in the U.S.: 1980-2000
We examine trends in five dimensions of segregation for African Americans, Hispanics, Asians and Pacific Islanders, and American Indians and Alaska Natives.
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