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SIS 2015: Theoretical and Applied Statistics pp 71–81Cite as

Spatial Residential Patterns of Selected Foreign Groups. A Study in Four Italian Cities

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What are the spatial residential patterns of the main foreign groups residing in some large Italian cities? Using data from the last Italian demographic census (2011) at sub-municipality level, the study investigates on this research question. A spatial approach is applied to analyze the geographical distribution of the main foreign groups enumerated in the cities of Milan, Rome, Naples and Palermo. The results provide some interesting insights: the distribution of foreign groups coming from central and eastern European countries is quite scattered and shows a comparative low level of dissimilarity to the spatial distribution of Italians. Conversely, foreign groups coming from more distant countries (like China, Bangladesh and Sri Lanka) show spatial distributions characterized by a comparative low level of dispersion and a comparative high level of dissimilarity to the spatial distribution of Italians.

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    In this perspective the WMC coincides with the Gini’s center of population firstly proposed by Gini and colleagues in the early 1930s [10, 11].

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    When the features have a spatially normal distribution, one standard deviation will encompass approximately 68% of all input feature centroids.

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    We computed GMC and GSDE taking into consideration all the enumeration areas (i) of each municipality. As known, some of them could not be populated. Nevertheless their number is limited and their impact on the measure is negligible. All the measures (geographical and weighted) were computed using ARCGIS ESRI 10.03.

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  1. Italian National Institute of Statistics, Piazza Guglielmo Marconi, 26/C, 00144, Rome, Italy

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Benassi, F., Lipizzi, F. (2019). Spatial Residential Patterns of Selected Foreign Groups. A Study in Four Italian Cities. In: Crocetta, C. (eds) Theoretical and Applied Statistics. SIS 2015. Springer Proceedings in Mathematics & Statistics, vol 274. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-05420-5_8

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