Ethnicity coding Flashcards

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How do you find out the ethnic composition of NZ - two things it depends on

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It depends on the data set used (HSU (undercount), census, IDI)
Health surveys are weighted to represent the overall population.

and Ethnicity coding protocol used: total response over count the number of people

Prioritised health data: for resources
Sole/combination

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What are the advantages of using a prioritised output

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  • ensure that when u need to assign them to just one ethnic group, minorities and Maori are not swamped by Pakeha
  • Produces easy to work with data as one count of ethnicity = 1 person. So all ethnic group populations= nz population
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What are the disadvantages of prioritised output- used in Health system

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It places people in specific ethnic groups which simplifies yet biases the resulting statistics as it over represents some groups at the expense of others in ethnic group counts

  • it is externally applied single ethnicity that is inconsistent with the concept of self identification
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What is the advantage of total response output

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It has the potential to represent people who do not identify with any given ethnic group depending on the level of detail reported

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What is the disadvantage of total response output

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Its hard to distribute funding based on population numbers or monitor changes in ethnic composition of a population in health

  • Overlapping data makes it hard to compare between groups based on ethnic grouping
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What is the difference between ethnicity and race?

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Ethnicity is a measure of cultural affiliation- self identified. People can belong to more than one ethnicity

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Why is it important to collect ethnicity data in the health and disability sector (usually done in the CENSUS)

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Ethnicity is an easy way to allocate people into groups. By finding health data based on ethnicity, you can identify disparities between different groups and be able to design culturally appropriate interventions.

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What is the difference between recording and reporting ethnicity data in New Zealand

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MoH requires ethnicities RECORDED at level 4. All ethnicities must be recorded and self identified but REPORTING is more flexible because need comparable data for monitoring, planning, etc so can be at higher level of aggregation 123. Need to use the same output and aggregate for numerator and denominator.

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9
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What are the 6 codes for level 1 (least detailed) of the ethnicity hierarchical framework

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European: 1
Maori: 2 
Pacific: 3 
Asian: 4
MELAA: 5
Other: 6 
Residual categories: 9
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What is MELAA

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middle eastern, latin american, african

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What is total response output

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All the ethnicities for one person are counted but if two of the ethnicities are the same at level 1 then its counted only once

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What is prioritised output (also give priority order at level 1)

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1 ethnic group per responder based on the priority order at level 1:
Maori> Pacific>Asian> Melaa>Other>European>Residual categories

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What is sole/ combination output

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Has sole ethnic categories and a separate category for all the combinations

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What are the advantages of sole/combination output

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The ethnicity counts are the same as the number of participants, follows the principle of self identification and doesn’t alter responses

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What are the disadvantages of sole/combination output

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relatively uncommon. Some ethnicities aren’t identifiable due to the naming of combination groups: (three groups).

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16
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What is an extremal quotient

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It compares the highest risk and lowest risk like a relative inequality to compare between most affected and least affected groups. (extremes)

17
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What is the Range

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like absolute inequality but using the furthest apart values

18
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EQ and Range help use look at

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the biggest variation across All groups