Wednesday 23 February 2011

How to be Cornish

I'm grateful to The Cornish Republican for drawing my attention to this website which advises us how to fill in the 2011 census form. But spare a thought for those poor souls from the Office for National Statistics who have to juggle a huge number of competing claims for "tick-box" self-identification as ethnic groups, including Welsh, English and several Asian or Arab sub groups. Indeed, for those who want to be really picky about which group they think they belong to, I suggest this 1997 Home Office research document devised to help police monitor and interpret their arrest statistics. If you were devising a census form, which ethnic groups would you deny a tick-box, and why?

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