{"id":384,"date":"2014-03-11T21:39:13","date_gmt":"2014-03-11T21:39:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=384"},"modified":"2014-03-11T21:43:53","modified_gmt":"2014-03-11T21:43:53","slug":"concepts-terminology-and-classifications-for-the-mixed-ethnic-or-racial-group","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=384","title":{"rendered":"Concepts, terminology, and classifications for the \u2018mixed\u2019 ethnic or racial group"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1136\/jech.2009.088294\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Concepts, terminology, and classifications for the \u2018mixed\u2019 ethnic or racial group<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/jech.bmj.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Journal of Epidemiolgy and Community Health<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/jech.bmj.com\/content\/64\/6.toc\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 64, Issue 6<\/a> (2010)<br \/>\nPages 557-560<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1136\/jech.2009.088294\" target=\"_blank\">10.1136\/jech.2009.088294<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/CHSS\/about\/staff\/aspinall.html\" target=\"_blank\">Peter J. Aspinall<\/a><\/strong>, Reader in Population Health<br \/>\nCentre for Health Services Studies<br \/>\n<em>University of Kent, United Kingdom<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Background:<\/strong> The way to categorise people born of inter-ethnic and racial unions &#8211; the \u2018mixed\u2019 group &#8211; remains unclear and requires new insights, given the increasing size and complexity of the group and its emerging health profile.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Methods:<\/strong> A mixed methods research study focussing on ethnic options of young \u2018mixed race\u2019 people (<em>n<\/em>=326) recruited in colleges and universities investigated respondents\u2019 preferences with respect to concepts, terminology, and classifications.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Results:<\/strong> <strong>The overwhelming generic term of choice was \u2018mixed race\u2019, widely interpreted by respondents to include mixed minority groups.<\/strong> Respondents were able to assign themselves in a valid way to a 12-category extended 2001 England and Wales Census classification for \u2018mixed\u2019, which collapses into five main groupings and also maps back to the census categories. Amongst options tested for census purposes, multi-ticking performed poorly and is not recommended.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Conclusions:<\/strong> A more finely granulated classification for \u2018mixed\u2019 is feasible where needed but this requires more extensive testing before it can be judged preferable to a \u2018tick one or more\u2019 option that has been shown to have poor reproducibility in validation surveys.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/jech.bmj.com\/content\/64\/6\/557.full.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Concepts, terminology, and classifications for the \u2018mixed\u2019 ethnic or racial group Journal of Epidemiolgy and Community Health Volume 64, Issue 6 (2010) Pages 557-560 DOI: 10.1136\/jech.2009.088294 Peter J. Aspinall, Reader in Population Health Centre for Health Services Studies University of Kent, United Kingdom Background: The way to categorise people born of inter-ethnic and racial unions [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,33,125,8,394,10],"tags":[81,61,1877,191],"class_list":["post-384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-census","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-uk","tag-england","tag-peter-aspinall","tag-peter-j-aspinall","tag-wales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=384"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/384\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}