Ethnicity

Analyses include ethnic identities among the non-UK born population in England and Wales, labour market participation, trends in general health and unpaid care by ethnic group, and inter-ethnic relationships.

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Change over time in admin-based ethnicity statistics, England: 2016 to 2020

Feasibility research on producing statistics on the population by ethnic group for England for 2016 to 2020 from administrative data, exploring change over time. This builds on work to improve the 2016 admin-based ethnicity statistics. These research outputs are not official statistics.
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Developing admin-based ethnicity statistics for England: 2016

Update on feasibility research on producing statistics on the population by ethnic group for England from administrative data, following the inclusion of additional data sources and method changes. These research outputs are not official statistics.
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Producing admin-based ethnicity statistics for England: changes to data and methods

An overview of the changes to data sources and methods in the feasibility research on producing statistics on the population by ethnic group from administrative data.

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  • Admin-based ethnicity statistics for England, feasibility research

    The Office for National Statistics (ONS) does not currently produce annual statistics by local authority on the population by ethnic group and the last official statistics were from the 2011 Census. This feasibility research combines ethnicity data from English School Census, Hospital Episode Statistics and Improving Access to Psychological Therapies to explore whether administrative data can be used to produce statistics on the population by ethnic group for 2016 at national and local authority level for England, by five-year age group and sex. These research outputs are not official statistics.

  • Producing admin-based ethnicity statistics for England: methods, data and quality

    An overview of methods, data sources and data quality for the feasibility research on producing statistics on the population by ethnic group from Hospital Episode Statistics, English School Census and Improving Access to Psychological Therapies data.

  • Research report on population estimates by ethnic group and religion

    Office for National Statistics research work on a simple method for producing population estimates by ethnic group and religion.

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