Ethnic classification is an inherently subjective process, especially when multiple ethnic
identifications are involved. There are two methods commonly used to classify multiple …

BACKGROUND The burgeoning global multi-ethnic population, in conjunction with the
importance of accurate ethnic group counts for research and policy purposes, make …

Identifying with more than one ethnicity is becoming increasingly common in New Zealand. It
is therefore important that the methods of categorising ethnicity used by government …

Since 1991 a growing share of the New Zealand population has reported more than one
ethnic group in the census, with rates especially high among children. A key challenge …

The expression of ethnic identification is fluid and complex, with important connections to
social, political and historical context. Measuring and monitoring ethnicity data is at the same …

Social scientists have long treated ethnicity as socially constructed and historically
contingent, rather than fixed at birth and transmitted across generations in a linear fashion. A …

This note reports on research investigating whether the ethnic groups of young adolescent
New Zealanders are fully represented when data are prioritised so that only one ethnicity …

In New Zealand, the number of people who identify with more than one ethnic group is
increasing. This is particularly true for adolescents and for those whose identifications …

In the first decade of the twenty-first century,'diversity'has emerged as a key value in its own
right, celebrated through human rights and similar policies promoting identity and providing …

Since the 1990s, state practices of counting and classifying populations by ethnicity have
come under increased scrutiny within the social sciences (Arel 2002; Kertzer and Arel 2002; …