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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

Millennium Cohort Study: First Survey, 2001-2003

Variable Details

Variableapethc00
LabelS1 PART Other Ethnic group (coded)
Responses
1 British, Mixed British 11
2 Irish 0
3 English 47
4 Scottish 12
5 Welsh 6
6 Cornish 0
7 Northern Irish 0
8 Cypriot (part not stated) 2
9 Greek 3
10 Greek Cypriot 0
11 Turkish 18
12 Turkish Cypriot 0
13 Italian 22
14 Irish Traveller 0
15 Traveller 0
16 Gypsy/Romany 0
17 Polish 3
18 Baltic States (Estonian, Latvian, Lithuanian) 0
19 Commonwealth of (Russian) Independent States 1
20 Kosovan 7
21 Albanian 3
22 Bosnian 0
23 Croatian 0
24 Serbian 0
25 Other republics which made up the former Yugoslavia 3
26 Mixed Irish/Other white 1
27 Other white European, European Mixed 86
28 Other mixed white 5
29 Other white, white unspecified 44
30 White and Black Caribbean 1
31 White and Black African 2
32 White and Asian 0
33 Black and Asian 1
34 Black and Chinese 0
35 Black and White 1
36 Chinese and White 0
37 Asian and Chinese 1
38 Other Mixed, Mixed unspecified 12
39 Indian or British Indian 3
40 Pakistani or British Pakistani 3
41 Bangladeshi or British Bangladeshi 0
42 Punjabi 0
43 Kashmiri 9
44 East African Asian 2
45 Sri Lankan 53
46 Tamil 9
47 Sinhalese 0
48 Caribbean Asian 1
49 British Asian 3
50 Mixed Asian 5
51 Other Asian, Asian unspecified 17
52 Caribbean 3
53 African 4
54 Somali 5
55 Nigerian 1
56 Black British 3
57 Mixed Black 0
58 Other Black, Black unspecified 0
59 Chinese 0
60 Vietnamese 2
61 Japanese 1
62 Filipino 5
63 Malaysian 3
64 Buddhist 0
65 Hindu 0
66 Jewish 3
67 Muslim 1
68 Sikh 0
69 Arab 22
70 North African 10
71 Middle Eastern (excluding Israeli, Iranian and Arab ) 23
72 Israeli 0
73 Iranian 6
74 Kurdish 6
75 Moroccan 8
76 Latin American 5
77 South and Central American 6
78 Multi-ethnic islands: Mauritian, Seychelles, Maldivian, St H 9
85 Other answer (not codeable 1-78) 85
86 Irrelevant response 2
-9 Refusal 0
-8 Don't Know 3
-3 Routing error 12
-1 Not applicable 17927
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationMillennium Cohort Study: First Survey, 2001-2003
Interviewer InstructionsTYPE IN OTHER ANSWER.
UniverseThe sample population for MCS was drawn from all live births in the United Kingdom over 12 months (from 1 September 2000 in England and Wales and for 59 weeks from 22 November 2000 in Scotland and Northern Ireland).;National
SamplingMulti-stage stratified random sample;See documentation for details.
Study TypeLongitudinal/panel/cohort<br><br>Four waves have been conducted to date: MCS1 (age 9 months), MCS2 (age 3 years), MCS3 (age 5 years) and MCS4 (age 7 years).<br><br>The population of eligible live births was selected from a random sample of electoral wards, disproportionately stratified to ensure adequate representation of all four UK countries, deprived areas and those with high concentrations of black and Asian families. See documentation for further details.
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