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Ethnic Data: Between Racial Profiling and Equal Opportunities

2003/04/03

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Collecting Ethnic Data: An Old Dilemma, The New Challenges
Katy Negrin
"Sound minority policy must be based upon accurate information related to minority populations, but the involvement of minorities themselves in data collection process is key to ensuring their interests are respected."

Ethnic, Religious and Language Groups: Towards a Set of Rules for Data Collection and Statistical Analysis
Werner Haug
"Reliable and authoritative figures on ethnic, religious, and language groups plays a prominent role in efforts to fight discrimination and foster individual human rights as well as minority group rights. This article identifies a set of rules and guidelines for the improvement of data collection and data analysis, building on rich international experience to date."

The Erasure of Romani Women in Statistical Data: Limits of the Race-versus-Gender Approach
Alexandra Oprea
"The conceptualisation of race and gender as separate and even unrelated categories has perpetuated the marginalisation of Romani women in the collection of statistical data. A multi-dimensional approach to the collection of data is needed."

Ethnic Data: Some Lessons From Jewish Experience
George R. Wilkes, Ph.D.
"Statistics have played a central role in modern attempts to victimise the Jews of Europe. At the same time, Jewish communities have often used statistics to combat discriminatory policies, sometimes with great success. The collation of ethnic data is an inevitable corollary."

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