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Variable

UK Data Service variable record for:

British Election Study Nine-Wave Panel Survey, 2005-2010

Variable Details

Variablepre_q179
LabelEthnicity 6
Question text You said you considered you belong to an 'other ethnic background'. Please say here what this is:
Responses
Anglo Greek 1
Anglo/ Greek Cypriot 1
British 1
British Chinese 1
Chinese 10
English 3
Greek Cypriot 2
Human 1
I do not respond to this question ever 1
I do not wish to answer 1
I don't regard 'white' as an ethnic background. I have come from several European cultures. 1
Irish 2
Jewish 2
Kavkazian 1
Malay 1
Malaysian English 1
Mediterranean 1
Mixed White/South American and Asian 1
N/A 1
Pakistani 1
Western Samoan 1
White - English 1
White Irish 1
anglo saxon english 1
black african 1
british 1
british asian 1
british chinese 1
caucasian 1
celtic 1
chinese 5
egypt 1
english 2
greek cypriot 1
green 1
i am not asian or asian british, i may have brown sking but i consider my self english/british (muslim) i was born in england and i am proud of it 1
irish 1
jewish 1
malaysian chinese 1
middle eastern 2
mind your own business 1
mixed 1
mixed european descent 1
multicultral, multicoloured tribal 1
n/a 1
none of your business 2
not applicable 1
not relevant to anything 1
other 1
paki 1
racist bigots I am white and don't give a flying fig about background. This question is divisive unhelpful and was dreamt up by some jerk from suburbia 1
scottish 1
ukrainian 1
vietnamese 1
welsh, african, polish, english, indian 1
white 1
DisclaimerPlease note that these frequencies are not weighted.
LocationBritish Election Study Nine-Wave Panel Survey, 2005-2010
UniverseElectors resident in Great Britain during 2005-2009.;National
SamplingQuota sample
Study TypeLongitudinal/panel/cohort; The dataset contains six survey waves.
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