Summary

Comparing the variation in the recording of ethnicity data between electronic health records and Census 2021. This is an update to a previous article titled “Understanding consistency of ethnicity data recorded in health-related administrative datasets in England: 2011 to 2021”.

Publications

• Quality of ethnicity data in health-related administrative data sources, England: November 2023

  Comparing the quality of ethnicity data recorded in health-related administrative data sources with Census 2021.

Data

• Mapping detailed SNOMED ethnicity codes to harmonised Census 2021 ethnic categories, England

  Comparing NHS England SNOMED code mapping with how individuals self-identified their ethnicity in Census 2021.

• Quality of ethnicity data in health-related administrative data sources, England

  Comparing the quality of ethnicity data recorded in health-related administrative data sources with Census 2021.

• Quality of ethnicity data in Hospital Episode Statistics sub-datasets, England

  Comparing the quality of ethnicity data recorded in individual Hospital Episode Statistics (HES) sub-datasets, including Admitted Patient Care (APC), Outpatients (OP), and Accident and Emergency (A&E) and Emergency Care Dataset (ECDS), with Census 2021.

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