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<p>The use of Census categories for ethnicity is assessed each year as part of the
Home Office’s process of agreeing each year’s Annual Data Requirement (ADR) of mandatory
collections of statistical data from the police. This process includes consideration
of the need, use, burden and data quality issues for each data collection. The National
Police Chiefs Council (NPCC) have previously advised against the transition to the
new Census categories due to the significant burden that this would place on forces
to change IT systems and processes.</p><p>The ADR collections currently use the Census
2001 ethnicity framework, and there are no plans at present to move to the Census
2011 framework, which would add a separate category of ‘Gypsy or Irish Traveller’.</p><p>The
guidance given to police forces on providing data to the Home Office is based on the
Census 2001 ethnicity framework. It is, however, a decision for individual forces
as to how they monitor and record ethnicity data for their own purposes.</p>
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