The UK has some of the best national surveys in the world that enable robust research into racism and its consequences for ethnic minority people.
The Ethnic Minority Boost (EMB) sampling employed in many of these surveys, whereby ethnic minority people are over-sampled, is imperative in order to allow for large enough sub-groups for meaningful israel rcs data statistical analysis. Indeed, I have used many of these datasets in my own research investigating ethnic inequalities in access to mental health services and the links between poverty and social networks for ethnic minority people.
But there are many areas where our current data resources fall short.
The research I do as a member of the Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) is addressing these gaps using innovative methods.
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One of our projects funded by The Nuffield Foundation, ‘Ethnic Inequalities in Later Life’ aims to understand why ethnic inequalities in health, life expectancy and socioeconomic circumstances exist for older people, and how they have changed over time. Ethnic minority older people are the one of the most disadvantaged groups in the UK but worryingly, quantitative data to investigate this group are sparse.