Ethnicity harmonised standard
This guidance sets out how to collect and report statistics about ethnicity to ensure statistics about this topic are as comparable as possible across government.
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This guidance sets out how to collect and report statistics about ethnicity to ensure statistics about this topic are as comparable as possible across government.
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