Ethnicity in Politics Online Data Centre

英国社会日益增长的种族多样性是公众、媒体和政治家非常感兴趣的一个主题。从穆斯林少数民族的政治异化及其与政治极端主义和恐怖主义的潜在联系（Saggar 2009）到少数民族在统治精英中的代表性不足（Speaker's Conference Interim Report 2009）等问题，种族在英国政治中的重要性日益增加。媒体、志愿组织甚至公众都在不断处理这些问题，但通常没有高质量的数据和信息可供使用。对学术资源缺乏认识的部分原因是用户缺乏使用现有数据的手段和知识。然而，部分原因在于学术界。学术期刊出版物价格昂贵，通常使用复杂的统计技术和专业语言;数据主要以可下载文件的形式提供，格式为昂贵和难以获得的统计数据包或其他困难的格式，如经济和社会数据处使用的Nesstar格式。在用户社区中，几乎没有专门知识，也没有资源来解决这些障碍。需要向用户提供可访问、可用、易于剪切和粘贴并专门针对他们的分析。通过与该领域的主要用户之一-Runnymede Trust合作，我们将创建一个解决这一问题的资源，我们建议创建一个在线数据中心，该数据中心基于2010年5月上次大选和地方选举后进行的新的少数民族英国选举研究（EMBES）（ESRC授予RES-062-23-1953），涵盖英国政治中种族的许多方面。非学术用户不太可能有时间、资源或耐心去寻找这些丰富的数据来源并自行分析。一个设计良好和易于使用的网站，如果得到用户社区积极成员的支持，将能更好地使研究用户、媒体和公众容易获得不需要统计软件或技能的信息。我们预计这将大大增加数据的使用及其对公共和政策辩论的影响。受访者对EMBES问题的回答将以交互式交叉表格和数字的形式呈现，并将很容易在网站上获得。主要结果将简要地解释，并在非专业的方式。最重要的是，这些数据将以图表的形式呈现，便于复制和复制，鼓励广泛的用户。这些图表将是交互式的，允许用户以非常简单的方式根据自己的需求对其进行修改。如果2010年英国选举研究报告、1997年少数族裔选举调查（EMBES的前身）或其他研究（如公民调查）中有相关问题，将提供比较，以将少数族裔的答案置于背景中。我们还将在更广泛的背景下介绍EMBES调查的结果，增加英国种族和政治的其他现有数据，并以“新闻博客”为特色，展示EMBES和其他相关研究的最有趣的结果。所有这些都将使我们的网站成为种族和政治领域任何查询的首选之地。除了以易于访问、用户友好的格式展示我们的数据外，我们还将组织用户研讨会，培训用户如何充分利用现有的种族和相关问题数据源，提高对这些数据的认识，提出数据质量问题，理解简单的分析，并反过来听取用户对数据的呈现和可访问性的需求和期望。我们亦会举办小型用户会议，推出我们的网站，并展开深入的宣传活动，推广网站。

The growing ethnic diversity of British society is a subject of great interest from the public, media and politicians. From such issues like the Muslim minority's political alienation and their potential links with political extremism and terrorism (Saggar 2009) to the under-representation of minorities from the governing elites (Speaker's Conference Interim Report 2009), ethnicity in the context of British politics is of increasing importance. The media, voluntary organisations, and even the public, are continuously handling these issues, but generally do not have good quality data and information at their disposal. The lack of awareness of academic resources is partly due to the lack of means and knowledge to use existing data among users. Partly however the fault lies within the academic community. Academic journal publications are expensive and usually use complex statistical techniques and specialist language; data are predominantly available in the form of a downloadable file in a format of an expensive and inaccessible statistical package or other difficult formats such as the Nesstar format used by the Economic and Social Data Service. In the user community there is little expertise, nor resources to tackle these obstacles. Users need to be presented with analyses that are accessible, usable, ready to cut and paste and addressed to them specifically. By working with one of the major users in the field- the Runnymede Trust- we will create a resource that will address this problem.We propose to create an online data centre based around the new Ethnic Minorities British Election Study (EMBES) conducted after the last general and local elections in May 2010 (ESRC grant RES-062-23-1953), and covering many aspects of ethnicity in British politics. It is unlikely that non-academic users will have the time, resources or patience to seek out this rich source of data and analyse them on their own. A well designed and easily usable website that will have the support from an active member of a user community will do much better in giving the research users, the media and the public easy access to information that will not require statistical software or skills. We anticipate this will greatly increase usage of the data and its impact on public and policy debates.Respondents' answers to EMBES questions will be presented in the form of interactive cross-tabulations and figures and will be easily accessible on the website. The main results will be explained briefly and in a non-specialist way. Most importantly the data will be presented in the form of graphs and charts, which will be easy to copy and reproduce in a form that will encourage a broad range of users. The charts will be interactive allowing users to amend them to their own needs in a very simple fashion. Where there is a relevant question in the main British Election Study 2010, from 1997 Ethnic Minority Election Survey (a predecessor to the EMBES), or from other studies such as the Citizenship Surveys (CS), comparison will be provided to put the answers of ethnic minorities in context. We will also present the findings of the EMBES survey in a broader context by adding other existing data on ethnicity and politics in Britain and featuring a 'news blog' to showcase the most interesting results of EMBES and other related research. All this will make our website a go-to place for any enquiries in the field of ethnicity and politics.Additionally to presenting our data in an accessible, user-friendly format, we will also organise user seminars to train users in making the most of existing data sources on ethnicity and related issues, increase awareness of these data, raise issues of data quality and understanding simple analyses, and in turn listen to users' needs and expectations as to the presentation and accessibility of data. We will also organise a mini-user conference to launch our website and initiate an intensive publicity campaign to promote it.