Asking people about their ethnicity

Richard Laux outlines the 3 main reasons for collecting data about people’s ethnicity and identifies 6 principles for collecting these to meet all users’ needs.
Richard Laux outlines the 3 main reasons for collecting data about people’s ethnicity and identifies 6 principles for collecting these to meet all users’ needs.
...inform our practice of combining multiple years’ data to enable us to analyse smaller ethnic groups Get involved Email us or leave a comment below if you are interested in...
...combining data for more than one year. I'd recommend that those responsible for data about teachers, children’s social workers, police and firefighters should take steps to include the Chinese group...
...Mixed, White, Other) or the more detailed categorisation (into 18 ethnic groups), as used in the Census? In making this decision we balanced two considerations. On the one hand, we...
...the employment rate in 2017 for the Indian group was 74%, and for the Pakistani and Bangladeshi group it was 55%. Rule 2: Balance your needs with users’ needs Collect...
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