Ethnicity statistics Flashcards
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Education
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- Chinese students were 79% more likely to attain a 5 or above for GCSE in English and maths (2019/20 gcse attainment - gov.uk)
- Black boys are around 3 times more likely to get excluded from school (#-g2)
- In 2015 at Oxford uni, only 2.5% of pupils were black. Black students are less likely to go to Oxbridge even if they have the same a level results. Only 4% of black students receive 3As at a level.
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Media
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- White Fright We can see this in the documentary white fright that shows individuals the immigrants stealing white culture.
- ‘Will britain ever have a black prime minister’ BBC Panorama
3 Van Dijk 1991: in the media black people become stereotyped as 5 things: as criminals, as abnormal, as a threat, as dependent, as
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Crime
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- Black people were more than three times as likely to be arrested than their white peers.
- Black people are now 10x more likely to be stop and searched.
- the Metropolitan Police made 77% of all searches of black people in the year ending March 2021.
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Home Ownership
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- White people, Indians and Pakistanis are more likely to own their own home than Bangladeshis and Black people
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Health
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- White teenagers are four times more likely to be smokers than black teenagers.
- BAME people were more likely to have severe reactions or die from Covid-19, they also have higher rates of mental health problems. (SAGE + other sources)
- 63% of health workers who have died from COVID are from ethnic minorities (Black and Asian)
- People of colour accounted for 34% of people admitted into intensive care (Why is COVID killing people of colour doc.)
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Poverty
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- 40% of Black people live in social housing (an indicator of poverty) (2011 census)
- 45% of Black children have grown up in poverty compared to 25% of white children (2011 census)
- White children are 4 times more likely to grow up in wealthy houses
