2001 Census Ethnicity Reports - Report on Coding of Any Mixed Background

9 May 2006

The question on ethnicity for the 2001 Census (Appendix A) divided answer categories into five sections.

1.    Introduction

2.    Pre-determined Detailed Codes

3.    Tick and Text Data

4.    Text Descriptors

5.    Findings

Appendix A - The question 

Appendix B - Main output categories and detailed codes

Appendix C - Number of persons of 'Any Mixed Background' in output and tick and text databases by detailed ethnic code

Appendix D - Ethnic descriptors occuring in written text

Appendix E - Summary of assessment of validity of coding for 'Any Mixed Background' 

Appendix F - Combinations of ethnicity descriptors