Examining racial attitudes, ethnicity and inequality through the UK Data Service

Evidence-based research into racial inequalities, racism and racial prejudice has the potential to support and drive policy development and reform that will help bring ethnic or racial equality. This poster will highlight key data in the UK Data Service collection that have been vital in building a picture of the circumstances of ethnic minority populations and their relationships to the ethnic majority population in the UK - and important national research using our data collections.

Impactful research using UK Data Service:

- Homelessness and Black and Minoritised Ethnic Communities in the UK, Nov 2022

- Falling Faster Amidst a Cost-of-Living Crisis: Poverty, Inequality and Ethnicity in the UK, Runnymede Trust, October 2022

- Are some ethnic groups more vulnerable to Covid-19, May 2020

Key data

- Evidence for Equality National Survey (EVENS) - UK’s first and largest survey to document the impact of Covid-19, and the lockdowns, on the lives of ethnic and religious minority people, available in  languages, Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) - Expected research access, April 2023.

- The Ethnic Minority Young People: Differential Treatment in the Youth Justice System, 2006 study examines how teenagers are treated by the youth justice system in the UK and highlights clear patterns of under- and over-representation of ethnic minority groups.

- NatCen’s 2017 report on racial prejudice in Britain today, used the British Social Attitudes Survey – a series run in most years since 1983, designed to produce annual measures of attitudinal movements in Great Britain.

- British Integration Survey, 2019, - data on levels of diversity in respondents’ networks, their interactions with people from different backgrounds, and attitudes towards different social groups. 

- British Election Study Ethnic Minority Survey, 2010 - an investigation of the political views and behaviours of Britain’s ethnic minority populations.