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.
...Informing the use and interpretation of ethnicity data These reports will discuss: how we use relative likelihoods to understand how big disparities are between different ethnic groups the impact of...
...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...
...experiences where there may be ethnic disparities, it’s also fair to say that it makes it difficult to get an overview. As we add more data to the website, it's...
...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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