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Strictly speaking everything other than White British would count as
part of the BME populations. Where the option for "other" exists across
all the categories White, Black etc or simply "other" there should
always be space for the person to enter what other they wish to declare
themselves. The CRE template on their website is helpful;
http://www.cre.gov.uk/gdpract/em_cat_ew.html#question
Then when analysing the info one can group people accordingly whether
they enter Lithuanian, Estonian, Australian, south African etc in white
other or other.
ONS also gives some guidance on their website about how to aggregate
what people in put into "other" into the headline categories which
might help;
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/about/ethnic_group_statistics/
I also see they have done a report
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/cci/article.asp?id=1291 on "WHat are the
'other' ethnic groups?". The work of ONS on ethnicity and culture is
summarised on
http://www.statistics.gov.uk/StatBase/Product.asp?vlnk=10991
You may also find the DH guide helpful
http://www.dh.gov.uk/PublicationsAndStatistics/Publications/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidance/PublicationsPolicyAndGuidanceArticle/fs/en?CONTENT_ID=4116839&chk=xfG3pr
Hope this is of some use
Sarah
Sarah Corlett
Consultant in Public Health
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