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Ethnic Origins 3: An Experiment in the Use of a Direct Question about Ethnicity, for the Census. Occasional Paper 10.
Sillitoe, Ken – 1978
This is a report on the third effort to formulate an effective question for determining the ethnicity of respondents to Great Britain's 1981 census. Discussed herein is the response to the ethnic origins questions, different versions of which were incorporated into the main census pre-test and administered to 4250 households (including large…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Ethnic Groups, Ethnicity, Foreign Countries
Ethnic Origins 2: An Experiment in the Use of a Direct Question About Ethnicity, for the Census. Occasional Paper 9.
Sillitoe, Ken – 1978
This is a report on the second effort to formulate an effective question for determining the ethnicity of respondents to Great Britain's 1981 census. Problems encountered in the first pilot test and the two alternate survey forms tried in the second test are described. Included in the present version are additional questions on education,…
Descriptors: Census Figures, Ethnic Groups, Ethnicity, Foreign Countries
Texas School Dropout Survey Project. Volume 2: Magnitude of the Problem--Attrition Analyses.
Intercultural Development Research Association, San Antonio, TX. – 1986
Volume 2, the second of eight publications developed by the Intercultural Development Research Association (IDRA) as part of the "Texas School Dropout Survey Project," focuses on the issue of the computation of a dropout rate. Three important factors which influence the mathematical computation of a dropout rate are identified: time…
Descriptors: Black Youth, Computation, Cultural Differences, Dropout Rate