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Ethnic Group and the British Census: The Search for a Question
Author(s) -
Sillitoe K.,
White P. H.
Publication year - 1992
Publication title -
journal of the royal statistical society: series a (statistics in society)
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.103
H-Index - 84
eISSN - 1467-985X
pISSN - 0964-1998
DOI - 10.2307/2982673
Subject(s) - census , ethnic group , population , inclusion (mineral) , demography , geography , genealogy , gender studies , political science , sociology , history , law
SUMMARY 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.