Washington, DC and environs. From the
Tiger
Mapping Service.
Cutler/Glaeser/Vigdor Segregation Data
UPDATED 4/4/2001: 2000 Segregation Indices added to the
Cutler/Glaeser/Vigdor dataset.
"Racial
Segregation in the 2000 Census: Promising News" by Edward Glaeser and
Jacob Vigdor.
Source
St. Louis
The segregation dataset found at this site was created by David Cutler,
Edward Glaeser, and Jacob Vigdor. The data come from decadal Census
data spanning the years 1890 to 2000. These data have been used in Cutler
and Glaeser's Are Ghettos Good or Bad? (1997: Quarterly Journal
of Economics 112:827-872) and Cutler, Glaeser and Vigdor's The Rise
and Decline of the American Ghetto (1999: Journal of Political Economy
107:455-506).
In addition to the segregation data, supplemental city/metropolitan
area data and the original ward and tract data used to construct the indices
can be found below.
Users of the historical segregation data should cite The Rise and
Decline of the American Ghetto. Users of the 1990 supplemental data
should cite Are Ghettos Good or Bad?
Documentation
Detroit
A brief introduction to the segregation measures, supplemental data, and
data samples can be found here.
Data
Oakland
Users of the segregation, supplementary, ward and/or tract datasets are
asked to send mail to Jacob Vigdor,
the custodian of this site. Users will be notified in the event of any
updates or additions to the datasets. The following files are all in ASCII
text format.
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Segregation: Indices of Dissimilarity and Isolation
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Segregation: Indices of Clustering, Concentration, and Centralization
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Supplemental data
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Original ward and tract data
Links
Dallas
NBER
Home page.
Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy
home page.