The stability of ethnic identity in England and Wales 2001-2011
The stability of ethnic identity in England and Wales 2001-2011
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DOI：
10.1111/rssa.12175
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发表时间：
2016-10-01
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2
通讯作者：
Warren, James
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作者：
Simpson, Ludi;Jivraj, Stephen;Warren, James
根据纵向研究，全国人口普查中衡量的族裔不稳定性从1991-2001年到2001-2011年翻了一番，纵向研究将个人人口普查记录样本与时间联系起来。根据内部证据以及与人口普查质量调查和劳动力调查结果的比较，估计由于问题措辞的变化、缺失答案的估算、代理报告、记录错误和填写答案分配的变化而导致的不稳定性。在其余的不稳定情况中，个人族裔的持久变化被认为比由于个人的身份感与人口普查问题中提供的类别不密切相关而发生的变化要少得多。这种不稳定造成一些族裔群体人数的净变化，与出生、死亡和移徙等两次人口普查之间的人口变化相比，这种净变化通常很小。探讨了人口普查汇总数据和微观数据分析的后果。
The instability of ethnicity measured in the national census is found to have doubled from the period 1991-2001 to the period 2001-2011, using the Longitudinal Study that links a sample of individuals' census records across time. From internal evidence and comparison with results from the Census Quality Survey and the Labour Force Survey, estimates are made of instability due to changing question wording, imputation of missing answers, proxy reporting, recording errors and changes in the allocation of write-in answers. Of the remaining instability, durable changes of ethnicity by individuals are thought to be considerably less common than changes due to a person's sense of identity not closely fitting the categories offered in the census question. The instability creates a net change in size of some ethnic groups that is usually small compared with the change in population between censuses from births, deaths and migration. Consequences for analysis of census aggregate and microdata are explored.