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Impact of inconsistent ethnicity recordings on estimates of inequality in child health and education data: a data linkage study of Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services in South London

Mar 5, 2024 | bmjopen.bmj.com | Alice Wickersham |Jayati Das-Munshi |Tamsin Ford |Amelia Jewell

DiscussionThese findings suggest that linkage between health and education data sources can provide an opportunity to increase available ethnicity data for studies using linked and routinely collected records. In this sample, the proportion with available and usable ethnicity data rose from 79.3% (from the NPD) and 87.0% (from CRIS) to 97.3% (from either the NPD or from CRIS).

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