Impact of inconsistent ethnicity recordings on estimates of inequality in child health and education data: a data linkage study of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in South London

Impact of inconsistent ethnicity recordings on estimates of inequality in child health and education data: a data linkage study of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in South London

Objectives Ethnicity data are critical for identifying inequalities, but previous studies suggest that ethnicity is not consistently recorded between different administrative datasets. With researchers increasingly leveraging cross-domain data linkages, we investigated the completeness and consisten...

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Main Authors:	Tamsin Ford, Johnny Downs, Robert Stewart, Amelia Jewell, Jayati Das-Munshi, Alice Wickersham
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	BMJ Publishing Group 2024-03-01
Series:	BMJ Open
Online Access:	https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/3/e078788.full

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