Ludi Simpson

Race and statistical practice - projects and publications

'Sleepwalking to segregation'? Challenging myths about race and migration. Policy Press details. Book with Nissa Finney, 2009. Summary chapter (pdf).

Migration, Race and Population Dynamics

Research programme and resources

Segregation or integration - what's going on?

Conference May 17 2007, links to presentations. Demography's contribution to debates on segregation, diversity and integration

Race and the local labour market in Great Britain

Ethnic Minority populations and the Labour Market: Analysis of the 1991 and 2001 Census (report for the Department of Work and Pensions)

Stability and change in ethnic groups in England and Wales

Project and publications

 

The numerical liberation of dark areas

Review of debates on segregation in Britain and their political expression. Sage Race Relations Abstracts 2006

Ghettos of the mind: the empirial behaviour of indices of segregation and diversity

A review and critique of indices of segregation, diversity and migration for England and Wales in 1991 and 2001. Scale and boundaries affect measurement, but the evidence is clear that there is dispersal and mixing of ethnic minority populations, not the creation of ghettos. Journal of the Royal Statistica Society, 2007

Statistics of racial segregation: measures, evidence and policy

Use of statistics on race and segregation, argument for measuring where people move directly, application to areas within Bradford District. Urban Studies 2004. Johnston, Poulsen and Forrest comment on 'Statistics of racial segregation: measures, evidence and policy'. Urban Studies 2005. On the measurement and meaning of residential segregation: a reply to Johnston, Poulsen and Forrest. Further comment Myth of mythicality by Alan Carling. Response to Carling Complexity and pessimism by Simpson, Husband and Alam.

Complaint to Statistics Commission on Commission for Racial Equality staff use of statistics 12 June 2007 from Danny Dorling (Sheffield) and Ludi Simpson (Manchester)

CRE response and Statistics Commission Response to CRE

Civil registration

Comment on proposal to include ethnic group October 2003. Article in Catalyst.