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Comment: Ethnicity

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Do not use a dash or en dash to introduce numbers as it can be mistaken for a minus. Use a colon or phrase it so no punctuation is needed.

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ethnicity

When writing about ethnicity, refer to ethnic minority groups individually, rather than as a single group. Where it’s absolutely necessary to group people from different ethnic minority backgrounds, use ‘ethnic minorities’ or ‘people from ethnic minority backgrounds.’

Do not use the terms BAME (black, Asian and minority ethnic) and BME (black and minority ethnic). These terms emphasise certain ethnic minority groups (Asian and black) and exclude others (mixed, other and white ethnic minority groups).

(UKHSA) Capping down Cap down ethnic groups unless there's a geographical term, so white and black, black Caribbean - whereas African, Asian and so on are capitalised.

'Black' as an adjective or category is capped down.

Survey categories If the terms refer to those used in an UKHSA survey or study, still cap them down but, in order to avoid ambiguity between general text and use of a survey category, use single speechmarks, 'white', 'black' and so on.

This includes 'other'.

euros, the euro

(UKHSA) Use the correct symbol €.

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