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Measuring ethnicity: challenges and opportunities for survey research

Jonathan Burton
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Alita Nandi
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Lucinda Platt
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Abstract

Measuring ethnic identity in social surveys has traditionally been problematic, often using a single question and allowing the respondent to choose one category from a pre-defined list. In this paper we discuss the rationale for and limitations of measuring a complex and multi-dimensional concept with a simple, uni-dimensional question. We propose that operationalising ethnicity as multi-dimensional requires multiple questions to capture the complexity of the concept. Giving researchers a number of different measures enables them to focus on the dimensions of interest to them, and has the potential to open up the rich resources of theoretically-robust survey research to researchers from a range of disciplines concerned with questions of ethnic identification.
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hal-00564473 , version 1 (09-02-2011)

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Jonathan Burton, Alita Nandi, Lucinda Platt. Measuring ethnicity: challenges and opportunities for survey research. Ethnic and Racial Studies, 2010, PP (PP), pp.1332-1349. ⟨10.1080/01419870903527801⟩. ⟨hal-00564473⟩

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