Now we must better understand the explanations for persisting ethnic inequalities.
Studies have found that ethnic inequalities in health and wellbeing at earlier life stages can be partly explained by socio-economic inequalities, which are in turn a result of structural, institutional, and india rcs data interpersonal racism and discrimination. And racism and discrimination also has direct influences on health outcomes. As people age, the complex interrelation of social and economic disadvantages will accumulate over the life course and impact health and wellbeing outcomes in later life.
Throughout this project, we are reacting to a worrying lack of appropriate data resources to enable robust analyses of older ethnic minority people specifically.
We are using existing data in novel ways to redress the stark evidence gap. For example, we are harmonising a series of disparate social surveys to enable analyses of ethnic inequalities for older people over a twenty year period.
Elsewhere, colleagues are implementing innovative methods in the Evidence for Equality National Survey (EVENS) to recruit and survey 17,000 ethnic and religious minority people following the Covid-19 pandemic. This is a great development for the UK data infrastructure.