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Hoover concentration index: a standalone construct

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Population geography

an index of how unevenly a population is distributed across areas relative to their land shares, used to track concentration and redistribution over time.

In population geography, Hoover concentration index refers to an index of how unevenly a population is distributed across areas relative to their land shares, used to track concentration and redistribution over time. This meaning comes from Hoover (1941) in The Journal of Economic History.[1]

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References

Hoover, E. M. (1941). Interstate Redistribution of Population, 1850–1940. The Journal of Economic History, 1(2), 199-205. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022050700052980

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