Fourth National Survey of Ethnic Minorities
- Abstract
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The aim of the survey was to describe the social and economic conditions of Britain's main ethnic minority groups, including their health, and to compare these with the social and economic conditions of the white majority, to explore diversity among different ethnic minority groups, to describe perceptions and experience of racial discrimination and social harassment.
- Main Topics/Subject Category
- Household structure, neighbourhoods and quality of housing, education, employment, health, racial harassment and discrimination, and ethnic identity
- Variables
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Household structure, neighbourhoods and quality of housing, education, employment, health, racial harassment and discrimination, and ethnic identity.
- Keywords
- England and Wales, academic achievement, accidents, adults, advanced level examinations, africa, age, aggressiveness, alcohol consumption, alcoholism, anthropometric data, anxiety, application for employment, arts education, asian languages, asians, assault, attitudes, bedrooms, black people, boys' schools, cardiovascular diseases, care of dependants, caribbean
- Identifier Variables
- Electoral ward, standard regions
- Area of Health System
- Other
- Data Available
- Socio-economic, Demographic
- Data collecting organization (s)
- Social and Community Planning Research
- Data Type
- Survey (cross-sectional)
- National/Regional
- National
- Coverage (date of field work)
- 1993, 1994
- Unit of Analysis
- Individual
- Sample
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Ethnic minority: 5,400 (target), 5,196 (obtained). White: 2,500 (target), 2,867 (obtained) adults aged 16 years and over who have Caribbean, Indian, Pakistani, Bangladeshi or Chinese family origins, and also a white comparison sample
- Availability
- ESDS Access and Preservation, UK Data Archive
- Conditions of Access
- Free registration access
- Link
- http://www.esds.ac.uk/findi[…]Survey+of+Ethnic+Minorities
- Contact
- help@esds.ac.uk
- Publications
- Nazroo JY. Rethinking the relationship between ethnicity and mental health: the British Fourth National Survey of Ethnic Minorities. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol 1998; 33: 145-148