Beecham, R orcid.org/0000-0001-8563-7251 and Slingsby, A (2019) Characterising labour market self-containment in London with geographically arranged small multiples. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 51 (6). pp. 1217-1224. ISSN 0308-518X
Abstract
We present a collection of small multiple graphics that support analysis and understanding of the geography of labour-market self-containment across London’s 33 boroughs. Ratios describing supply-side self-containment, the extent to which working residents access jobs locally, and demand-side self containment, the extent to which local jobs are filled by local resident workers, are first calculated for professional and non-professional occupations and encoded directly through geographically-arranged bar charts. The full distribution of workers into-and out-of- boroughs that underpins these ratios is then revealed via Origin-Destination flows maps (OD maps) – sets of geographically-arranged choropleths. In order to make relative and absolute comparison of borough-to-borough frequencies between occupation types, these OD maps are coloured according to signed chi-square residuals: for every borough-to-borough pair, we compare the observed number of flows to access professional versus non-professional jobs against the number that would be expected given the distribution of those jobs across London boroughs. Our geographically-arranged small multiples demonstrate potential for spatial analysis: a rich, multivariate structure is depicted that reflects London’s economic geography and that would be difficult to expose using non-visual means.
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | (c) The Author(s) 2019. Beecham, R and Slingsby, A (2019) Characterising labour market self-containment in London with geographically arranged small multiples. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 51 (6). pp. 1217-1224. Reprinted by permission of SAGE Publications. |
Keywords: | Labour market self-containment; travel to work; origin destination; OD map; small multiples |
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Institution: | The University of Leeds |
Academic Units: | The University of Leeds > Faculty of Environment (Leeds) > School of Geography (Leeds) > Centre for Spatial Analysis & Policy (Leeds) |
Depositing User: | Symplectic Publications |
Date Deposited: | 20 May 2019 09:50 |
Last Modified: | 15 Aug 2019 13:05 |
Status: | Published |
Publisher: | SAGE Publications |
Identification Number: | 10.1177/0308518X19850580 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:146307 |