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.
...for example our work with the Office for National Statistics (ONS) on linked data - setting out how we might use linkage, (i) to understand or to tackle quality limitations,...
...percentages, so it's useful to be able to see both for the full picture. For example, in 5 workforces – armed forces, firefighters, prison officers, tribunal judges and non-legal members...
The Race Disparity Unit has today published the first in a series of summaries of data from the ‘Ethnicity facts and figures’ website. This first summary shows a range of...
...quite reasonable to comment on the combined Asian group. In other datasets it makes little sense because the data for the different Asian ethnic groups is quite different. For example,...
This is a cross government blog about our work with data and the way we’re using performance analysis and data science techniques to improve service delivery and policy outcomes, and our work to find, access and use open government data.
Sign up to get updates direct to your inbox and stay informed about improvements to digital products and services in government.