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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Res. 2013 Apr 4;42(4):1046–1060. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2013.03.007

Table 6.

Fixed-effects regression models of white-minority dissimilarity by poverty status, 2000–2011.

Metropolitan area correlates White segregation from all
Blacks
White segregation from all
Hispanics
White segregation from all
Asians
Poor Nonpoor Poor Nonpoor Poor Nonpoor
Racial/ethnic concentration
  Proportion minority group −.06 −.49 .09 .18 −.96* .61
  Proportion white .01 .09 .30 .41 .24 .13
  Proportion minority foreign-born .22* .21* .11 .11 −.11 .16
White-to-minority income ratio .00 .00 .00 −.02 .00 −.01
Poverty rate
  Minority group .03 .14 .06 .28 −.02 .19*
  White −.78 −.31 .71 .15 .55 .61
Unemployment rate
  Minority group −.23 −.17 −.03 −.15 .18 −.10
  White −.59 −.93 −.88 .06 .26 .34
Educational attainment
  Minority group (ref = high school grad)
    Less than high school .21 .22 .06 .13 .13 .17
    Some college −.05 .02 −.29 −.46* .21 .17
    College graduate .03 −.32 −.12 −.29 .10 .04
White (ref = high school grad)
    Less than high school −.09 .38 −.55 −.49 .19 −.86
    Some college −.36 .00 −.39 −.35 1.08 −.36
    College graduate .04 .30 .50 −.02 1.17** −.32
Occupational structure (ref = lower white)
  White collar 1.07*** 1.32** .92 .22 .30 .29
  Blue collar −1.17*** −1.33*** −.43 .12 .32 .21
Metropolitan population (logged) .12** .13** .15* .11* .08 .10*
Proportion aged 65 and over 1.36** .41 .92 .06 .37 .69
New housing construction −.26 −.27 .04 −.04 −.07 .03
Homeownership rate −.51 −.07 −.34 −.00 −.29 −.22
Mean home value (logged) .04 .05 .03 .02 .03 .03
Constant −.60 −1.17 −1.65 −1.42 −1.81* −1.41

Notes: Number of cases is 200 (100 metros in each time period). Standard errors adjusted for clustering.

*

p < 05.

**

p < 01.

***

p < 001.