A multilevel model for community segregationFootnote*

The research was supported by the Centre for Educational Sociology (University of Edinburgh), a Designated Research Centre funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (C00280004), and by the Canadian Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council. The analyses and conclusions do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of these or any other organisations. We are grateful to Stephen Raudenbush and three anonymous reviewers for their comments on an earlier draft of this paper.

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