Sentence examples for ethnic identifiers from inspiring English sources

Nonetheless, ascertainment of ethnicity would be strengthened if population-level Canadian health care data included ethnic identifiers.

His company has compiled a searchable database of about a billion names from all over the world, with variants, cultural and ethnic identifiers, and chief countries of origin.

She's fresh off a successful weekend in Los Angeles as director of the first Asian American comedy festival, The Comedy Comedy Festival: A Comedy Festival – a title purposely lacking ethnic identifiers to heighten its visibility to "mainstream" audiences.

The most common ethnic identifiers are race, religion, country of origin, language, and/or cultural background.

While collecting population data, the Census Bureau now identifies the white racial category as "white, non-Hispanic," and allows for Latinos to use both racial and ethnic identifiers to categorize themselves.

There are no ethnic identifiers in Canadian health care data, so assignment was based on surnames, with two lists of surnames validated in this population used to identify people with South Asian and with Chinese origins (13).

The report added: For many Bosnian Muslims, religion often served as a community or ethnic identifier, and religious practice was confined to occasional visits to the mosque or significant rites of passage such as birth, marriage, and death.

Some attention has been given to Justice Benjamin Cardozo – a Sephardic Jew believed to be of distant Portuguese descent – as the first Hispanic on the court when appointed in 1932, but his roots were uncertain, the term "Hispanic" was not in use as an ethnic identifier at the time, and the Portuguese are generally excluded from its meaning.

A pan-ethnic identifier would have made little sense to them.

It is known that there is greater genetic diversity in individuals of African origin but ethnic group identifiers for the PDR90 samples are not available.

Alternatives to using country of birth in the absence of ethnic group identifiers, such as surname analysis for those groups (mainly South Asian) whose names are distinctive (McKenzie et al. 2008), are useful approaches.