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Ethnicity data: data quality resources
This page links to reports and blog posts on ethnicity data quality issues, written by analysts in the Race Equality Unit (formerly the Race Disparity Unit).
Blog posts
The Race Equality Unit (formerly the Race Disparity Unit) has produced the following blog posts to help users understand important aspects of data quality:
- Communicating the quality of ethnicity data, August 2024
- My take on equalities data, January 2024
- Data on inequalities: approaches, issues and challenges, December 2023
- 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.