. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Oct 14.

Published in final edited form as: Am Sociol Rev. 2008 Oct;73(5):766–791. doi: 10.1177/000312240807300504

Table 1.

Mean Segregation Levels By Local Environment Size and Racial Group Combination^a

Group combination	Scale-specific segregation				Macro-micro segregation ratio^b
Group combination	H500	H1000	H2000	H4000	Macro-micro segregation ratio^b
Black-White	.447 (.141)	.403 (.140)	.349 (.132)	.279 (.117)	.611 (.100)
Hispanic-White	.282 (.086)	.242 (.086)	.200 (.082)	.154 (.072)	.526 (.148)
Asian-White	.212 (.049)	.168 (.047)	.133 (.045)	.103 (.041)	.476 (.112)
White-Black-Hispanic-Asian	.343 (.099)	.304 (.096)	.258 (.089)	.204 (.079)	.584 (.094)

N = 100 metro areas; standard deviations appear in parentheses.

Operationalized as H4000/H500.