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| Stability and change in ethnic groups in England and Wales | | Author(s) | Lucinda Platt, Ludi Simpson, Bola Akinwale |
| Journal title | Population Trends, no 121, Autumn 2005 |
| Pages | pp 35-46 |
| Source | http://www.statistics.gov.uk |
| Keywords | Ethnic groups ; Census ; Demography ; Longitudinal surveys. |
| Annotation | The Office for National Statistics (ONS) Longitudinal Study (LS) is an exceptional resource for exploring dynamic processes in individuals' lives for a representative sample of the population of England and Wales, and across a 30-year period, including how these processes vary by ethnic group. However, analyses tend to assume a certain stability in the meaning of the ethnic group being studied: the insights into ethnic group differentiation are permitted on the fact that the group has the same meaning over time. This article shows how the LS allows us to challenge such notions of group stability. This has practical implications for the ways we measure and conceptualise Britain's minority ethnic groups. Two examples are used to illustrate this point: the first exploring the change in ethnic group identification by the same individuals between 1991 and 2001; and the second exploring how loss to follow-up is differentially experienced according to ethnic group. The authors provide some suggestions of the implications of this ethnic group instability for other research. (RH). |
| Accession Number | CPA-051018205 A |
| Classmark | TK: S4C: S8: 3J |
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