Ethnicity data: data quality resources
This page links to methods and quality reports, blog posts and other resources on ethnicity data quality issues, written by analysts in the Race Disparity Unit.
Blog posts
The Race Disparity Unit has produced the following blog posts to help users understand important aspects of data quality:
- Improving ethnicity data standards, April 2023
- Tackling online abuse, April 2023
- Attributing ethnicity using someone’s name, May 2022
- Harmonising decentralised data collections, April 2022
- Improving reporting and reducing misuse of ethnicity statistics, March 2022
- Comparing ethnicity data for different countries, January 2022
- Asking people about their ethnicity, June 2021
- Why data harmonisation is important, January 2021
- Why we’re talking more about how we collect and analyse data on ethnicity, April 2020
- Piecing things together, April 2020
- Using location data in tackling ethnic disparities, October 2019
- How can the public sector collect better data on staff ethnicity?, July 2019
- How we’re helping people understand ethnicity data, June 2019
- Making ethnicity data more coherent and comparable, June 2019
- 50 years of collecting ethnicity data, March 2019
Methods and quality reports
The following reports cover the use and interpretation of ethnicity data, data about particular ethnic groups, and ethnicity data improvement.
Use and interpretation of ethnicity data
Data about particular ethnic groups
Improving ethnicity data
Last updated 29 January 2024 + show all updates
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Removed links to 2 blog posts published on the Government Analysis Function blog in December 2023 and January 2024 that have since been removed.
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Added links to 2 recently-published blog posts written by Richard Laux (Head of Analysis in the Equality Hub) for the Government Analysis Function blog.
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Added links to 3 new publications – 2 blog posts, and one methods and quality report.
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