Why We Record Ethnicity – And Why It Matters
As the Race Equality Foundation, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, and the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity, launch their landmark conference, ‘Advancing Racial Justice: Convention on the State of Data 2026’, our Chief Executive, Jabeer Butt, reflects on the use, and mis-use, of ethnicity data from the 1960s to the present day.











