Sentence examples for ethnic representativeness from inspiring English sources

Even in otherwise ethnically diverse Nigerian professional circles (especially in national bureaucracies which must pursue a 'federal character' of ethnic representativeness, see Mustapha 2007), pastoralist communities are often absent or scarce.

Analyses based on levels of gender or ethnic representativeness in a STEM field in relationship to students' sense of belonging indicate that being demographically similar to others in the field positively impacts belonging.

The criteria used to select sampling kebeles were relative distance from the park, interaction with wildlife, livestock production system, and representativeness of ethnic groups living around the park (i.e., Afar, Ittu, and Kereyu).

Purposive sampling resulted in a mix of genders, age ranges, treatment types and socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds, to maximise the representativeness of the findings.

There was a low response rate to the survey and the possibility of non-representativeness as the people who were surveyed had put themselves forward for the research, and men and those from ethnic minorities were under-represented.

Although the telephone survey used market research quota sampling and obtained a low response rate of 8.5%, it appeared to perform better than the postal survey in terms of representativeness by age, gender and minority ethnic communities, and estimating use of different services in the system.

A concern relates to the relative representativeness of the samples obtained for each ethnic group.

Although it is preferable to have more detail, given the relatively small numbers of participants it would be inappropriate to use the more detailed level 2. Collection of ethnic group information allows comparison to census data to determine the representativeness of responders.

Information collected in the questionnaires is shown in table 2. Initial descriptive analyses assessed the representativeness of the respondent sample by comparing proportions from each ethnic group with those reported in the 2001 UK census and the 2004 General Household Survey of Great Britain.

Due to ethnic variations in diabetes prevalence in South Africa, there may be continuing issues around data representativeness.

He added: "Labour is working to increase the diversity and representativeness of Parliament and has a proud record of increasing the number of women and ethnic minority MPs".