Sponsor
This project and the costs to publish in open access were funded in part by the National Institute for Transportation and Communities (NITC; #NITC2016-UO-06), a US DOT University Transportation Center, and the University of Oregon, Department of Sociology and the Underrepresented Minority Recruitment Program in the Office of the Provost and Academic Affairs.
Published In
Sustainability
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-11-2019
Subjects
Transportation -- Social aspects -- United States, Transportation and state -- United States, Transportation -- Environmental aspects, Sustainable development, Transportation surveys -- Oregon -- Portland Metropolitan Area
Abstract
US household transportation surveys typically have limited coverage of and responses from people of color (POC), which may lead to inaccurate estimation of POC transportation access and behavior. We recast this technocratic understanding of representativeness as a problem of “racial misrecognition” in which racial group difference is obscured yet foundational for distributive transportation inequities and unsustainability. We linked 2008–2012 population and housing data to an apparent stratified random sample of 6107 household responses to the 2011 Oregon Household Activity Survey (OHAS) in a “sustainability capital”: the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area. We detailed how the 2011 OHAS consistently overrepresented White households and underrepresented Latinx/Nonwhite households in aggregate and at the tract-level. We conducted tract-level spatial pattern and bivariate correlation analyses of our key variables of interest. As expected, our subsequent tract-level spatial error regression analysis demonstrated that the percent of Latinx/Nonwhite householders had a significant negative association with 2011 OHAS household response rates, net of other statistical controls. Further analyses revealed that the majority of the ten “typical” tracts that best represented the spatial error regression results and racial misrecognition in the OHAS exhibited historical and contemporary patterns of racial exclusion and socially unsustainable development in our study area.
DOI
10.3390/su11164336
Persistent Identifier
https://archives.pdx.edu/ds/psu/29390
Citation Details
Liévanos, R. S., Lubitow, A., & McGee, J. A. (2019). Misrecognition in a Sustainability Capital: Race, Representation, and Transportation Survey Response Rates in the Portland Metropolitan Area. Sustainability, 11(16), 4336.
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