Ethnicity statistics

Question 1

Education

Answer 1

1. Chinese students were 79% more likely to attain a 5 or above for GCSE in English and maths (2019/20 gcse attainment - gov.uk)
2. Black boys are around 3 times more likely to get excluded from school (#-g2)
3. In 2015 at Oxford uni, only 2.5% of pupils were black. Black students are less likely to go to Oxbridge even if they have the same a level results. Only 4% of black students receive 3As at a level.

Question 2

Media

Answer 2

1. White Fright We can see this in the documentary white fright that shows individuals the immigrants stealing white culture.
2. ‘Will britain ever have a black prime minister’ BBC Panorama

3 Van Dijk 1991: in the media black people become stereotyped as 5 things: as criminals, as abnormal, as a threat, as dependent, as

Question 3

Crime

Answer 3

• Black people were more than three times as likely to be arrested than their white peers.
• Black people are now 10x more likely to be stop and searched.
• the Metropolitan Police made 77% of all searches of black people in the year ending March 2021.

Question 4

Home Ownership

Answer 4

• White people, Indians and Pakistanis are more likely to own their own home than Bangladeshis and Black people

Question 5

Health

Answer 5

• White teenagers are four times more likely to be smokers than black teenagers.
• BAME people were more likely to have severe reactions or die from Covid-19, they also have higher rates of mental health problems. (SAGE + other sources)
• 63% of health workers who have died from COVID are from ethnic minorities (Black and Asian)
• People of colour accounted for 34% of people admitted into intensive care (Why is COVID killing people of colour doc.)

Question 6

Poverty

Answer 6

• 40% of Black people live in social housing (an indicator of poverty) (2011 census)
• 45% of Black children have grown up in poverty compared to 25% of white children (2011 census)
• White children are 4 times more likely to grow up in wealthy houses