Measuring ethnicity: challenges and opportunities for survey research
Measuring ethnicity: challenges and opportunities for survey research
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DOI：
10.1080/01419870903527801
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发表时间：
2010-01-01
影响因子：
2.5
通讯作者：
Platt, Lucinda
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作者：
Burton, Jonathan;Nandi, Alita;Platt, Lucinda
在社会调查中衡量族裔身份历来是有问题的，往往使用单一问题，并允许答卷人从预先确定的清单中选择一个类别。在本文中，我们讨论的基本原理和局限性测量一个复杂的和多维的概念，一个简单的，一维的问题。我们建议，操作的种族作为多维度需要多个问题来捕捉概念的复杂性。给研究人员一些不同的措施，使他们能够专注于他们感兴趣的方面，并有可能开放的丰富资源，理论上强大的调查研究，从一系列学科的研究人员关注的问题，种族认同。
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 operationalizing 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.