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Connelly, Roxanne, Gayle, Vernon and Lambert, Paul (2016) Ethnicity and ethnic group measures in social survey research. Methodological Innovations, 9 . pp. 1-10. doi:10.1177/2059799116642885
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2059799116642885
Abstract
This article is a review of issues associated with measuring ethnicity and using ethnicity measures in social science research. The review is oriented towards researchers who undertake secondary analyses of large-scale multipurpose social science datasets. The article begins with an outline of two main approaches used in social surveys to measure ethnicity, the ‘mutually exclusive category’ approach and the ‘multiple characteristics’ approach. We also describe approaches to the use of ethnicity measures in cross-national comparative research. We emphasise the value of sensitivity analyses. We also encourage researchers to carefully consider the possible relationships between ethnicity and other important variables in order to avoid spurious interpretations of the effects of ethnicity.
| Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HT Communities. Classes. Races | ||||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Sociology | ||||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Great Britain -- Ethnicity -- Statistics , Social Surveys, Quantitative research | ||||||||
| Journal or Publication Title: | Methodological Innovations | ||||||||
| Publisher: | Sage Publications Ltd. | ||||||||
| ISSN: | 2059-7991 | ||||||||
| Official Date: | 1 January 2016 | ||||||||
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| Volume: | 9 | ||||||||
| Page Range: | pp. 1-10 | ||||||||
| DOI: | 10.1177/2059799116642885 | ||||||||
| Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||
| Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access |
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