1. Advantage and disadvantage across Australia's extended metropolitan regions: A typology of socioeconomic outcomes.
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Baum, Scott, Haynes, Michelle, Van Gellecum, Yolanda, and Hoon Han, Jung
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ECONOMICS ,SOCIOLOGY ,SOCIOECONOMICS ,SOCIOECONOMIC factors ,SOCIAL factors ,GAUSSIAN measures ,CONFIDENCE intervals ,STATISTICAL sampling - Abstract
New national and international economic and social forces have reshaped national geographies in general and the characteristics of cities in particular, resulting in a range of diverse social and spatial outcomes. These outcomes, which include greater differentiation across, within and between cities has become a feature of the economic and social forces associated with post-Fordist social structures. Taking localities across Australia's metropolitan regions, this paper develops a typology of advantage and disadvantage using a model-based approach with clustering of data represented by a parameterised Gaussian mixture model and confidence intervals of the means providing a measure of differences between the clusters. The analysis finds seven clusters of localities that represent different aspects of the socio-spatial structure of the metropolitan regions studied. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2006
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