nmmarquez / censeg

Census Segregation Measures

You can install censeg via devtools devtools::install_github("nmmarquez/censeg")

The censeg package allows use to quickly calculate segrgeation measures in the United States using the census API. Data available to construct segregation measures come from the ACS 5 years surveys as well as the 2000 and 2010 deccenial Census. You may also quickly calculate segregation measures across the US using convienience functions in the package.

library(censeg)
library(dplyr)
library(ggplot2)
library(stringr)

all_census_seg(year = 2010) %>%
    filter(str_ends(cbsatitle, ", CA|, NV|, AZ")) %>%
    {right_join(cbsa_sf, .)} %>%
    ggplot() +
    geom_sf(aes(fill = H)) +
    theme_void() +
    scale_fill_distiller(palette = "Spectral") +
    labs(fill = "Theil's H\nIndex") +
    ggtitle(
        "Segregation Measures for South West Core Based Statistical Areas",
        "Measures Constructed from 2010 Census Data")

Current segregation measures

• Thiel's H
• Dissimilarity Index

Future segregation measures

• Absolute Clustering