GDSC - Person Ethnicity

Name	Person Ethnicity
Description	A person's ethnic group.
Business Format	Text
Element Type	Data Item
XML Schema	View whole schema document Religion and Ethnicity as XML View definition CommonEthnicCategoryType as HTML
Validation
Values	For England and Wales: --------------------------------- WHITE British Irish Other White --------------------------------- MIXED White & Black Caribbean White & Black African White & Asian Other Mixed --------------------------------- ASIAN OR ASIAN BRITISH Indian Pakistani Bangladeshi Other Asian --------------------------------- BLACK OR BLACK BRITISH Caribbean African Other Black --------------------------------- CHINESE --------------------------------- OTHER ETHNIC GROUP Any Other (please describe)
DefaultValue
Owner	Office of National Statistics
Based On	Ethnic Group Statistics - A guide for the collection and classification of ethnicity data.
Verification
Comments	For further information see http://www.statistics.gov.uk/about/ethnic_group_statistics For Nothern Ireland and Scotland values, refer to the National Statistics guidelines.

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