Racial Equality (The Executive Office)

Description

A racial equality variable as specified by The Executive Office (TEO). Individuals who recorded their ethnic group as white are divided into two groups. The first group includes people with a British, Irish or Northern Irish national identity only, and who reported their religion as Christian, no religion, or did not state a religion. The second group includes people who did not have a British, Irish or Northern Irish national identity, or who reported a non-Christian religion. A final group includes everyone with a non-white ethnicity. British, Irish or Northern Irish national identities also include English, Scottish, Welsh, Guernsey Islander, Jersey Islander, Manx, Cornish, Channel Islander, Ulster Scots, and Gaelic.

Variable categories

Showing all 3 categories from this variable.

A breakdown of the categories in the variable, by code and label.
Label Code
White ethnicity: British/Irish/Northern Irish only and Christian/no religion/religion not stated 1
White ethnicity: all others 2
Non-white ethnicity 3