Sentence examples for ethnicity data collection from inspiring English sources

Improving ethnicity data collection is a key target for routinely collected datasets including hospital records, HES, and cancer registers.

Further research is needed into the perceptions and experiences of ethnicity data collection in a broader range of UK ethnic groups e.g. Black Caribbeans, Black Africans, Chinese, Whites and particularly those of the rapidly growing mixed group for whom the question of ethnic group is particularly tricky.

Several were also aware of the increased prevalence of certain diseases in minority ethnic groups and stated this as a reason supporting ethnicity data collection in a healthcare setting: "Sometimes it is helpful to provide ethnicity as it helps care providers understand our background and determine common illnesses due to dietary habits or genetic findings.

In contrast much has been done in the area of ethnicity data collection in the USA where the proportion of ethnic minorities is greater [ 25].

It is recognised that ethnicity data collection in the UK has historically been of poor quality.

In 1996, soon after the initiation of the mandatory ethnicity data collection in secondary care, Pringle and Rothera showed ethnicity data collection to be feasible as well as acceptable to patients and staff in the primary care setting [ 20].

The Demographic and Health Survey (DHS) 2002 and the AIDS Indicator Survey (AIS) 2005, for example, have recorded ethnicity during data collection but not presented ethnicity as an independent variable when presenting results (19, 20).

Improved recording of ethnicity in sources of data that TCR have access to will improve completeness, as will highlighting the importance of collecting ethnicity to data collection staff.

Self-reported ethnicity data was collected according to the Statistics New Zealand standard for the electronic collection of ethnicity data [ 32].

In order to improve the level of recording in TCR data there needs to be better recording of ethnicity in sources TCR data collection staff have access to, or use of information from other sources e.g. electronic data feeds from hospitals or pathology laboratories, or HES data itself supplied directly to TCR.

Ethnicity data were not collected.