A nation still dividing: the British census and social polarisation 1971-2001
A nation still dividing: the British census and social polarisation 1971-2001
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10.1068/a3692
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2003-07-01
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Rees, P
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Dorling, D;Rees, P
这篇文章分析了与1991年和之前的人口普查相比，英国人口在地理上或多或少变得两极分化的程度。我们使用的是普查机构2003年2月13日公布的2001年人口普查的地方当局主要统计数据。研究了26个主要统计表中的所有变量，这些变量可以随着时间的推移与1991年人口普查进行比较。然后将分析扩展到1971年和1981年类似测量的变量子集。我们的结论是，根据人口普查的记录，在英国生活的关键方面，英国在20世纪90年代继续在社会地理上进行分化，而且分化的速度往往快于20世纪80年代或70年代。在两极分化似乎有所减少的地方，往往是那些现在人口普查衡量不力的生活方面。文章最后猜测了国家继续分裂的可能原因，这些地区现在比以往任何时候都更容易被划分为老年人和年轻人、定居和移民、黑人和白人、或富人和穷人。最后讨论了英国社会空间继续分化的可能性。这篇论文以一个虚构的情节开始。
This paper presents an analysis of the degree to which the population of Britain has become more or less geographically polarised as compared with 1991 and earlier censuses. We use the Key Statistics for local authorities from the 2001 Census, released on 13 February 2003 by the census authorities. All of the variables from the 26 Key Statistics tables which can be compared over time with the 1991 Census are examined. The analysis is then extended for a subset of variables that were similarly measured in 1971 and 1981. We conclude that for key aspects of life in Britain, as recorded by the censuses, the nation has continued in the 1990s to divide socially geographically, often at a faster rate than was occurring in the 1980s or 1970s. Where there appears to have been a reduction in polarisation it tends to have been for those aspects of life which are now poorly measured by the census. The paper concludes with speculation about the possible reasons for the continued division of the country into areas now more easily than ever typified as being old and young, settled and migrant, black and white, or rich and poor. Finally the potential for the continued sociospatial polarisation of Britain is discussed. The paper begins with a fictional vignette.