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Ethnicity in the 1991 Census

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Title: Ethnicity in the 1991 Census

Material type: Monograph

Description: The 1991 census was the first to include a question about ethnic origin.
This ONS four-volume set analyses the data to provide a wide range of information, including marriage patterns, geographical spread of ethnic groups in the UK and a discussion of definitions of particular ethnic groupings.

Click on the individual volume link for content details or go to the website addresses below to link to the relevant ONS page.

Volume 1: Demographic characteristics of the ethnic minority populations, David Coleman and John Salt (eds).

Volume 2: The ethnic minority populations of Great Britain. Ceri Peach (ed).

Volume 3: Social geography and ethnicity in Britain: geographical spread, spatial concentration and internal migration. Peter Radcliffe (ed).

Volume 4: Employment, education and housing among the ethnic minority populations of Britain. Valerie Karn (ed).