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Ethnicity

In this section

  • Reporting ethnicity to the national collections
    A description of best practice for providing ethnicity data to the national collections. Read more

Publications

  • Ethnicity Data Protocols for the Health and Disability Sector
  • Ethnicity Data Recording and Reporting
  • Improving and Maintaining Quality in Ethnicity Data Collections in the Health and Disability Sector

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  • Statistics New Zealand

Page last updated: 16 March 2012

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