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Time to Move Forward: Reply to Bischoff et al.1

Time to Move Forward: Reply to Bischoff et al.1 The commentary by Reardon and colleagues (Bischoff et al. 2022) on “The Uptick in Income Segregation: Real Trend or Random Sampling Variation?” (Logan et al. 2018) our AJS article about income segregation, does little at this point to advance our understanding of income segregation or methods of measuring and tracking trends in segregation. Even at the time of its final submission in the fall of 2019, its contribution was modest. We do appreciate correction of a misstatement about data suppression. The American Community Survey (ACS) does provide the race-specific income distribution for tracts with small numbers of any given racial/ethnic category. The decennial census in 1970 and 1980 used whole table suppression as the main technique for data confidentiality in tables with small populations, but this approach was replaced by alternatives in 1990 and subsequent years.In fall 2019, when they submitted the final version of their comment, Reardon and colleagues had already published a fairly thorough response to our work (Reardon et al. 2018) in which they used different methods than ours but reached very similar conclusions about the extent of bias from sampling and how to correct it. That article was a thoughtful response to our concerns about http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png American Journal of Sociology University of Chicago Press

Time to Move Forward: Reply to Bischoff et al.1

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The commentary by Reardon and colleagues (Bischoff et al. 2022) on “The Uptick in Income Segregation: Real Trend or Random Sampling Variation?” (Logan et al. 2018) our AJS article about income segregation, does little at this point to advance our understanding of income segregation or methods of measuring and tracking trends in segregation. Even at the time of its final submission in the fall of 2019, its contribution was modest. We do appreciate correction of a misstatement about data suppression. The American Community Survey (ACS) does provide the race-specific income distribution for tracts with small numbers of any given racial/ethnic category. The decennial census in 1970 and 1980 used whole table suppression as the main technique for data confidentiality in tables with small populations, but this approach was replaced by alternatives in 1990 and subsequent years.In fall 2019, when they submitted the final version of their comment, Reardon and colleagues had already published a fairly thorough response to our work (Reardon et al. 2018) in which they used different methods than ours but reached very similar conclusions about the extent of bias from sampling and how to correct it. That article was a thoughtful response to our concerns about

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American Journal of Sociology – University of Chicago Press

Published: Mar 1, 2022

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