The ethnicity question for the 1991 Census: background and
issues Ní Bhrolcháin, Máire (1990) The ethnicity question for
the 1991 Census: background and issues. Ethnic and Racial
Studies, 13, (4), 542-567. (doi:10.1080/01419870.1990.9993689).
Full text not available from this repository. The Government
announced on 13 November 1989 that an ethnicity question would
be asked in the 1991 Census. The decision was taken following
the favourable public response to the fielding of a new form of
ethnicity question in the large-scale Census Test carried out in
April 1989. The question asks the respondent to tick one box
from among the following categories: White, Black-Caribbean,
Black-African, Black-Other (with description), Indian,
Pakistani, Bangladeshi, Chinese, Any other ethnic group (with
description). The 1991 Census will be the first British census
to include an ethnicity question, though not the first for which
such a question was proposed. The 1981 Census was to have had a
question on race/ethnic group but t