La division de l'espace residentiel montrealais en fonction de la langue maternelle: apport des indices de segregation residentielle. From: Canadian Journal of Urban Research | Date: December 22, 2002| Author: Apparicio, Philippe; Seguin, Anne-Marie | COPYRIGHT 2002 Institute of Urban Studies. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

Abstract

The previous studies of ethnic or linguistic division in Montreal have used multidimensional analyses (factorial analysis) and the popular index of dissimilarity (Duncan et Duncan). We propose here an analysis of the linguistic division of Montreal based on a great diversity of indices, more than twenty. These indices are grouped in five dimensions: evenness, exposition, concentration, clustering and centralization. The calculation of these indices was largely s...