Index Differences in Registering Area Group Proportions

Abstract

My goal in this chapter is to help interested readers become more familiar with the residential outcomes for individuals and households that give rise to different indices of uneven distribution. To do so, I review the residential outcome scores that underlie segregation comparisons in the difference of means formulation looking in detailed at the segregation comparisons of Whites with Blacks, Latinos, and Asians in Houston, Texas in 2000. The data for these comparisons are taken from block group tabulations for families obtained from Summary File 3 of the 2000 census. Table 5.1 presents the basic demographic information for the four groups and the three segregation comparisons considered here. The results for “overall” percentages document that Whites (non-Hispanic) are the largest group at 52.7 % overall, followed by Latinos (34.8 %), Blacks (16.5 %), and Asians (4.8 %). The results also document that the pairwise percentages for any group comparison are always higher than overall percentages for the obvious reason that groups outside the comparison are excluded from the denominator in the calculations.