빈곤층 거주지의 공간적 집중에 대한 연구 = 기초생활수급인구를 중심으로

다국어 초록 (Multilingual Abstract)

The residential pattern of the poor has emerged an important topic in urban research domain because of strong and complex relationship between various urban problems. However, prior urban literature in Korea has failed to pay scholarly attention to analysis for spatial concentration of poverty. This research aims to measure the poverty concentration at the county level(Si-Gun-Gu) and investigate how spatial pattern of the poor residence varies by the region. Given the limitation of insufficient data that fails to provide geographically micro-level poverty-related variables, the present study attempts to utilize the official data for the basic livelihood security recipients and measure 4 major segregation indices across the entire 251 counties in the nation with respect to spatial dimensions of evenness, exposure, clustering, and concentration. According to the results, the poverty rate appears to be higher in rural areas than in the metropolitan urban areas. Meanwhile, the segregation for the poor at urban areas(particularly in Seoul metropolitan region) tends to be more serious than rural areas although the spatial pattern for clustering index does not display similar regional variation that other segregation types commonly illustrate. Therefore, this paper tries to not only arouse the necessity of measuring the spatial concentration of poverty but confirm the possibility of applying major segregation indices in terms of capturing spatial dynamics of poverty.