Estimating the Accuracy of Ethnicity Data in Health Datasets

Timeframe

2020

Funding

University of Otago

COMPASS staff

Barry Milne
Martin von Randow

Collaborators

University of Otago
Sue Crengle

Description

This project was led by Professor Sue Crengle at the Department of Preventive and Social Medicine, University of Otago. It involved comparing self-assessed ethnicity from census data with records from Primary Health Organisations and the New Zealand Cancer Registry, to assess the extent to which health datasets might undercount certain ethnic groups, with a particular focus on the reporting of Māori ethnicity.