{"id":6530,"date":"2010-04-08T23:50:18","date_gmt":"2010-04-08T23:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=6530"},"modified":"2010-04-08T23:50:47","modified_gmt":"2010-04-08T23:50:47","slug":"does-the-british-states-categorisation-of-%e2%80%98mixed-race%e2%80%99-meet-public-policy-needs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=6530","title":{"rendered":"Does the British State&#8217;s Categorisation of \u2018Mixed Race\u2019 Meet Public Policy Needs?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.cambridge.org\/action\/displayAbstract?fromPage=online&amp;aid=6721008\" target=\"_blank\">Does the British State&#8217;s Categorisation of \u2018Mixed Race\u2019 Meet Public Policy Needs?<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.cambridge.org\/action\/displayJournal?jid=SPS\" target=\"_blank\">Social Policy &amp; Society<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/journals.cambridge.org\/action\/displayIssue?jid=SPS&amp;volumeId=9&amp;issueId=01\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 9, Number 1<\/a> (January 2010)<br \/>\npages 55-69<br \/>\nDOI:10.1017\/S1474746409990194<\/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 at the Centre for Health Services Studies<br \/>\n<em>University of Kent, UK<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The England and Wales 2001 Census was the first to include \u2018Mixed\u2019 categories which have now been adopted across government. The four \u2018cultural background\u2019 options were highly prescriptive, specifying combinations of groups. This paper assesses how satisfactorily these analytical categories captured self-ascribed cultural affiliation based on the criteria of validity, reliability and utility of the data for public services. Finally, the paper asks whether we now need a census question on ethnic origin\/ancestry in addition to\u2014or instead of\u2014ethnic group or whether multi-ticking or a focus on family origins might give more useful public policy data and better measure the population&#8217;s ethnic diversity.<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.cambridge.org\/action\/displayFulltext?type=1&amp;fid=6721016&amp;jid=&amp;volumeId=&amp;issueId=&amp;aid=6721008\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Does the British State&#8217;s Categorisation of \u2018Mixed Race\u2019 Meet Public Policy Needs? Social Policy &amp; Society Volume 9, Number 1 (January 2010) pages 55-69 DOI:10.1017\/S1474746409990194 Peter J. Aspinall, Reader in Population Health at the Centre for Health Services Studies University of Kent, UK The England and Wales 2001 Census was the first to include \u2018Mixed\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,6,26,394,10],"tags":[81,1877,2730,191],"class_list":["post-6530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-census","category-new-media","category-politics","category-socialscience","category-uk","tag-england","tag-peter-j-aspinall","tag-social-policy-society","tag-wales"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6530","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=6530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}