MEASURING MULTIGENERATIONAL NEIGHBORHOODS
MEASURING MULTIGENERATIONAL NEIGHBORHOODS
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10.1093/geroni/igad104.2638
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2023-12-21
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人们越来越担心，社会上的代际分化越来越严重，这正在产生消极的社会后果，例如孤独和社会孤立增加。居住年龄隔离是这种代际差距的主要驱动力，有令人担忧的证据表明，美国，英国和欧洲的居住年龄隔离水平有所增加。然而，年龄隔离的衡量标准在方法上有一些局限性：一）它们只比较年轻和年长的年龄组，因此忽视了邻近地区更广泛的代际组合;二）不同的研究使用不同的年轻/年长年龄组衡量标准;三）不同的地理范围，例如病房、地区等，在不同的研究中使用，以及四）衡量标准往往在很大程度上具有地域综合性，例如地方当局。为了解决这些问题，我们开发了一种新的多代社区措施，基于用于计算生物多样性的生态措施，适用于2011-2020年英格兰和威尔士的所有社区。我们的分析表明，i）年龄隔离和邻里多代性之间的相关性很低，ii）与年龄隔离的一些研究结果相反，英格兰和威尔士的绝大多数人生活在多代社区。然而，一些地区的多代生育率有所下降，特别是在内城和沿海地区。
There are growing concerns that societies are becoming more generationally divided and that this is having negative social consequences, such as increasing loneliness and social isolation. Residential age segregation as a key driver of this generational divide and there is worrying evidence that levels of residential age segregation have increased in the USA, UK and Europe. However, measures of age segregation have a number of methodological limitations: i) they only compare younger and older age groups and therefore overlook the wider generational mix in the neighbourhood; ii) different measures of young/older age groups are used in different studies, iii) different geographical scales, e.g. wards, districts, etc., are used in different studies and iv) measures are often at a high level of geographical aggregation, e.g. local authorities. To address these issues we have developed a new measure of multigenerational neighbourhoods, based on an ecological measure used to calculate biodiversity, for all neighbourhoods in England and Wales from 2011-2020. Our analyses shows that i) there is a low correlation between measures of age segregation and neighbourhood multigenerationality and ii) contrary to some findings on age segregation, the vast majority of people in England and Wales live in multigenerational neighbourhoods. However, some areas have seen a drop in multigenerationality, especially those in inner city and costal areas.