Ethnic Group and the British Census: The Search for a Question

Ethnic Group and the British Census: The Search for a Question

The 1991 census contained, for the first time, a question on the ethnic group of each member of the population of Great Britain. This paper reports on how a question was developed which has a sufficiently high degree of acceptance from all the main ethnic groups, and which is answered sufficiently a...

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Veröffentlicht in:Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A, Statistics in society Statistics in society, 1992-01, Vol.155 (1), p.141-163
Hauptverfasser: Sillitoe, K., White, P. H.
Format: Artikel
Sprache:eng
Schlagworte:
Asians
Biological and medical sciences
Black people
census
census test
Censuses
Culture
Data Collection
Demography
Developed Countries
ethnic group
Ethnic Groups
Ethnicity
Europe
Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology
Minority groups
Parents
Population
Population censuses
Population Characteristics
post‐enumeration survey
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychology. Psychophysiology
Psychometrics. Sociometry
race
Research Design
Sampling Studies
Separated status
Social psychology
Social surveys
Surveys and Questionnaires
United Kingdom
White people
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Zusammenfassung:The 1991 census contained, for the first time, a question on the ethnic group of each member of the population of Great Britain. This paper reports on how a question was developed which has a sufficiently high degree of acceptance from all the main ethnic groups, and which is answered sufficiently accurately, to justify inclusion in the census.
ISSN:0964-1998
1467-985X
DOI:10.2307/2982673