Corrigendum

Spaiser, Viktoria, Peter Hedström, Shyam Ranganathan, Kim Jansson, Monica K. Nordvik, David J.T Sumpter. 2018. Identifying Complex Dynamics in Social Systems: A New Methodological Approach Applied to Study School Segregation. Sociological Methods & Research. 47(2), 103-135. DOI: 10.1177/0049124116626174

In this article, the author regrets that there are a few errors in the 2nd paragraph after equation 9 on page number 121. The original paragraph and the corrected one have been mentioned below. Changes are shown in bold in the corrected paragraph.

A school with a perceived foreignness index of 1.5 could have 65 percent students of Swedish origin, 20 percent of Iranian background, and the rest could consist of small proportions of students from Finland, Middle Europe, South America, and with mixed parental backgrounds. Such a school is highly likely to end up with fewer and fewer students of native Swedish background. In contrast, if the 20 percent were not of Iranian background but of Spanish background, for instance, the perceived foreignness index would be around 0.85 and the school would not tip.

Should be

A school with a perceived foreignness index of 1.5 could have 50 percent students of Swedish origin, 45 percent of Iranian background and 5% of various East-European backgrounds. Such a school is highly likely to end up with fewer and fewer students of native Swedish background. In contrast, if the 45 percent were not of Iranian background but of Spanish background, for instance, the perceived foreignness index would be around 0.71 and the school would not tip.