Re: Ethnicity


"Al Chartres" <al@[nospam]byteitservices.co.uk> wrote in message
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I appreciate what you are saying. However I have very little confidence on
the use of statistics because they can be used or abused at the reporters
will. Plus if the right option is not on the form, what happens?


In the case of race - the SA use the officially recognised options - those
who do not fit the official ones go as other.

The SA didn't decide upon these grouping but somewhere much wider
(government?)

For the SA in particular I have had an interesting experience. When I
entered my details as IST for the Jamboree one of the categories was my
religious belief. The options as follows.

Christian - Catholic
Christian - Orthodox
Christian - Protestant
Christian - Other

Where does an Anglican go?


That is a different question that is not on the census - but you put
yourself where you feel happiest.

If you are not Catholic you are one of the others. I don't know what
Orthodox or Other may cover but if you are not Catholic then personally I
would have put Protestant (I was under the impression that you had to be one
or the other from school all those years ago).

DaveB
West Yorks


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