Ordering urban communities according to their socio-economic characteristics

Uri Yanay*, Avi Griffel

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Abstract

Defining the needs of a community and ranking communities according to their level of distress presents both conceptual and empirical difficulties. In this study, the needs of 51 communities are defined by five selected socio-economic characteristics. The scores of these communities in each of the characteristics were arranged by Partial Order, allowing for a Multi rather than a Uni-Dimensional Scaling. This Multi-Dimensional Scaling maintains that the scores of a given community may be high in one characteristics and low in another. Arranging these communities by Partial Order Scalogram Analysis (POSA) allows the differentiation between communities according to their Level of Distress (The Joint Direction) and the Type of Distress (The Lateral Direction). This analysis can help in forming a policty for intervention by selecting communities or settlements either by the level or by the type of their distress or by relating to both of these measures.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)421-433
Number of pages13
JournalSocial Indicators Research
Volume17
Issue number4
DOIs
StatePublished - Nov 1985

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