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However, not all women who attend have an ethnic code recorded, so there was still missing ethnicity information in this group.
*2.3% of patients missing ethnicity information.
Percentages do not add up to 100% owing to 1.4% of cases having missing ethnicity information.
Because most cases of misclassification were due to missing ethnicity information in administrative records (48.3% of misclassified cases), we also calculated sensitivity without those with missing information.
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Another limitation is the proportion of missing ethnicity data.
There were two additional categories: 'Not recorded' occurred when there was an explicit code stating that ethnicity was not recorded, and 'Missing' was for missing ethnicity data.
Candidates were often excluded if ethnicity data were missing (though Dewhurst et al analysed the 10% missing ethnicity data separately 35).
Misclassification of ethnicity and race in administrative records occurred in 23.1% and 33.6% children, respectively; the majority due to missing ethnicity (48.3%) and race (40.9%) information.
As ethnicity information was not complete for all registered cancers, we did a sensitivity analysis using multiple imputations of the missing ethnicity values age, sex, income domain of IMD 2007, site of cancer and region.
The last stage in processing, the imputation of the missing ethnicity using the existing variables shown to be associated with missing ethnicity (Table 1) and external information derived from the above sources was carried out in Stata using the MI package ICE [ 14].
Records with missing values were excluded from the analysis with the exception of ethnicity; mothers with missing ethnicity (n = 194) were classified as unknown.
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