The main large scale surveys about Ethnicity held in the Qb are listed below, as well as other smaller surveys that may be of relevance. Please be aware that this is just a selection of surveys that cover this topic in some depth. Questions on Ethnicity may also be found in other surveys held in the Qb that are not listed here.
- British Social Attitudes Survey
- European Social Survey
- Fourth National Survey of Ethnic Minorities
- Millennium Cohort Study
- People, Families and Communities Survey
FINDING QUESTIONS
This table shows the major concepts that questions on Ethnicity may be concerned with. To locate the relevant questionnaires in which such questions are found, click on the links displayed under the heading Year(s). The PDF Search Function can then be used if desired questions cannot immediately be located. For more general information on the surveys in which these are contained, click on the links in the column entitled Survey.
| Locating Questions On... | Survey | Year(s) |
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Ethnic group |
Census of Population |
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Ethnic identity |
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Language |
Fourth National Survey of Ethnic Minorities |
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Discrimination |
British Social Attitudes Survey |
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Racial prejudice |
Fourth National Survey of Ethnic Minorities |
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Racial harrassment |
British Crime Survey |
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Attitudes to immigrants |
British Social Attitudes Survey |
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*denotes a survey in which the question(s) on a given topic were repeated in the questionnaire each year.
Should you wish to cite any commentary in the topics section, please use the following format:
Crispin Jenkinson, 'Measuring Health Status and Quality of Life' 1998, Question Bank Topic Commentary on Health, http://qb.soc.surrey.ac.uk/topics/health/jenkinson.htm [The Question Bank is an ESRC funded Internet social survey resource based in the Department of Sociology, University of Surrey.]
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Any queries should be sent to: surveynet
Ethnic Group Statistics: a guide for the collection and classification of ethnicity data: Office for National Statistics 2003.
A report produced by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) providing a methodology for the collection and classification of frequent and comprehensive data by ethnicity [reproduced with permission].
ETHNICITY - Commentary written for the Qb by Martin Bulmer, 1999.
The following references have been compiled from the ESDS Government Publications Database:
Agyemang, C. and Bhopal, R. (2003). Is the blood pressure of people from African origin adults in the UK higher or lower than that in European origin white people? A review of cross-sectional data. Journal of Human Hypertension. 17 (8) pp.523 – 534.
Chandola, T. and Jenkinson, C. (2000). Validating self-rated health in different ethnic groups. Ethnicity & Health. 5 (2) pp.151 – 159.
Clark, K., Drinkwater, S. and Leslie, D. (1998). Ethnicity and self-employment earnings in Britain 1973-95. Applied Economics Letters. 5 (10) pp.631 – 634.
Ginn, J. and Arber, S. (2001). Pension prospects of minority ethnic groups: inequalities by gender and ethnicity. British Journal of Sociology. 52 (3) pp.519 – 539.
Harding, S. and Allen, E.J. (1996). Sources and uses of data on cancer among ethnic groups. British Journal of Cancer, 74 pp.S17 - S21.
Heath, A., McMahon, D. and Roberts, J. (2000). Ethnic differences in the labour market a comparison of the samples of anonymized records and Labour Force Survey. Journal of the Royal Statistical Society Series A - Statistics in Society, 163, pp.341 – 361.
Iganski, P. and Payne, G. (1999). Socio-economic re-structuring and employment the case of minority ethnic groups. British Journal of Sociology. 50 (2) pp.195 - 215.
Smaje, C. and LeGrand, J. (1997). Ethnicity, equity and the use of health services in the British NHS. Social Science & Medicine. 45 (3) pp.485 – 496.
Warren, T. and Britton, N.J. (2003). Ethnic diversity in economic wellbeing: the combined significance of income, wealth and assets levels. Journal of Ethnic and Migration Studies. 29 (1) pp.103 – 119.