Ethnic mortality estimates for the UK – how reliable are they?
In addition, high attrition rates (reaching 25% for the Black Caribbean group) make many ethnic group estimates unreliable.
This adjusts the observed percentage for the inverse of the probability of being selected, based on the proportions of women aged 30 and older of a particular age and ethnic group estimated to be resident in each local authority area, based on GLA 2006 population estimates.
Again, they were Uighurs, members of the mostly Muslim, Turkic ethnic group estimated to make up nearly half Xinjiang's 20m population.
The Alevis, mostly ethnic Turks estimated at 15 million to 20 million strong and one of the biggest minorities in this country.
The influx has gradually continued, officials here say, with Taliban fighters able to easily melt into the city's population of fellow ethnic Pashtuns, estimated to number at least five million people.
The unrest has raised fears of a humanitarian crisis in overstretched border camps, with another 400,000 of the Muslim ethnic minority estimated to be trapped in conflict zones in western Myanmar since more "clearance operations" by security forces in Rakhine state began last month.
This figure propagated the general belief that ethnic Chinese then estimated at 3 percent of the population controlled 70 percent of the economy.
Reflecting for a moment on the immense number of lives lost after 65 years of armed ethnic conflict, estimated by veteran journalist Bertil Lintner to be in the hundreds of thousands, Ja Nan Lahtaw inhaled deeply, and, through her thick black glasses, turned her eyes upward and extolled a heavy sigh.
For race or ethnic-specific estimates, only results for the three major groups (whites, African Americans, and Mexican Americans) are shown.
