This post introduces a new Composite Segregation Index combining ethnicity, class, and education to capture spatial sorting - and shows why UK's census architecture hides the social dynamic beneath.
This is absolutely fascinating. Especially the additional data streams that you suggest are necessary and should be used for properly understanding politically relevant integration.
And there have been places that have used additional (to census) data streams , for ex Amsterdam/Rotterdam when they introduced school lotteries to reduce clustering (reduce segregation in schools) or similarly in Ghent/Antwerp when they introduced algorithmic school choice.
The thing is though how to stop bad people with bad intentions using tons of micro data streams for bad ends? Cause isn't that what Trump 2.0 administration is doing, using vast streams of ever more sophisticated and detailed data to punish, chill and segregate?
Thanks for sharing your thoughts! Using additional data sources is a great idea and also allows to find some causality. I agree on the micro data issue and it should be never traceable back to any individuals - exactly for the reasons you mention. Perhaps there should be more accessible data available to be used in close cooperation with and permission of an independent body (eg ONS-like)? Would be curious to hear if something like this is already available for this data in the UK.
Absolutely superb piece, brilliantly testing anecdote with real data. At a glance, map output seems highly correlated with house prices / housing demand. Perhaps it would be worthwhile running some regressions with house prices or similar as control variable?
Having lived in fairly mono-cultural places before (a mostly working class northern town and a mostly working class Chinese city) the number of times in London I discover things are clearly just for one small subset of the very diverse population still surprises me. Lots of things I do everyone is middle class and almost everyone is white. Go to a highly rated cafe for any sub-saharan African cuisine and often find I'm the only white person. Different mosques and churches seem to cater for different ethnic groups. At Romford Dogs often everyone other than me is white working class. It is very easy to live a mono-cultural life even in a very multi-cultural place if you want to!
Great article. Ironically, and as you probably know, the ur-ABM was a model of the emergence of racial segregation, described in Thomas Schelling's 'Micromotives and Macrobehaviour'.
This is absolutely fascinating. Especially the additional data streams that you suggest are necessary and should be used for properly understanding politically relevant integration.
And there have been places that have used additional (to census) data streams , for ex Amsterdam/Rotterdam when they introduced school lotteries to reduce clustering (reduce segregation in schools) or similarly in Ghent/Antwerp when they introduced algorithmic school choice.
The thing is though how to stop bad people with bad intentions using tons of micro data streams for bad ends? Cause isn't that what Trump 2.0 administration is doing, using vast streams of ever more sophisticated and detailed data to punish, chill and segregate?
Thanks for sharing your thoughts! Using additional data sources is a great idea and also allows to find some causality. I agree on the micro data issue and it should be never traceable back to any individuals - exactly for the reasons you mention. Perhaps there should be more accessible data available to be used in close cooperation with and permission of an independent body (eg ONS-like)? Would be curious to hear if something like this is already available for this data in the UK.
Absolutely superb piece, brilliantly testing anecdote with real data. At a glance, map output seems highly correlated with house prices / housing demand. Perhaps it would be worthwhile running some regressions with house prices or similar as control variable?
Thanks for your thoughts and kind words! As part of a larger research project we are doing this, so more to come on this:)
Having lived in fairly mono-cultural places before (a mostly working class northern town and a mostly working class Chinese city) the number of times in London I discover things are clearly just for one small subset of the very diverse population still surprises me. Lots of things I do everyone is middle class and almost everyone is white. Go to a highly rated cafe for any sub-saharan African cuisine and often find I'm the only white person. Different mosques and churches seem to cater for different ethnic groups. At Romford Dogs often everyone other than me is white working class. It is very easy to live a mono-cultural life even in a very multi-cultural place if you want to!
Great article. Ironically, and as you probably know, the ur-ABM was a model of the emergence of racial segregation, described in Thomas Schelling's 'Micromotives and Macrobehaviour'.