Generations Apart: The Growth of Age Segregation in England and Wales (2016)
This report (which was part-funded by Legal & General PLC) used, in an innovative way, methodological tools that were originally invented to measure the extent of racial discrimination in US cities by applying them to measure the likelihood of different age groups living in the same neighborhoods in England and Wales across time. Using the asia rcs data Index of Dissimilarity, the Index of Exposure and the Index of Isolation to small-area population estimates from the 1991, 2001, and 2011 censuses and the 2016-based national population projections revealed that young and old have become significantly less likely to live within the same neighbourhoods over the past 25 years. It argued that increasing age segregation has a number of negative social, political and economic effects and government should modify planning policy to try to encourage more multi-generation neighbourhoods.
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