title: More reliable minority ethnic population estimates and proportions for local areas: which areas to select and other choices to be made--an exploratory analysis.
abstract: Central and Local Government and other organisations are interested, for a variety of purposes, in obtaining better--more reliable--estimates of the proportions of the total populations in local authority districts which belong to the minority ethnic population. In inter-censal periods, this aim could be met, for example, by an increase in the size of the Labour Force Survey sample in selected areas. This article considers the optimal sample size for each area under different criteria to improve the reliability of its estimated minority ethnic proportion.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Haskey
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Scott
mesh_terms: D019352:Censuses; D005006:Ethnicity / Q000145:classification / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005544:Forecasting / Q000379:methods*; D005843:Geography; D006801:Humans; D008913:Minority Groups / Q000145:classification / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D011156:Population Density; D017062:Small-Area Analysis; D006113:United Kingdom / Q000453:epidemiology