Find out about the Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) and the people involved.

Ethnicity is a complex concept that cannot be adequately captured by a simple classification. However, ethnic classifications provide a way of highlighting very important differences and inequalities between groups that need to be made explicit if they are to be recognised and addressed by policy-makers. The figures presented on these web-pages should be taken as a starting point for asking much deeper questions about the processes that underlie the observed differences, rather than an end in themselves.

This web site is designed to help you to locate data and information about ethnic difference and inequality in the UK. It is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) via the National Centre for Research Methods (NCRM) and is managed by the Population, Ethnicity, Religion and Migration (PERM) research group based at the University of Manchester.

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The Economic and Social Research Council’s Centre on Dynamics of Ethnicity (CoDE) has prepared briefings on the 'Dynamics of diversity: evidence from the 2011 Census':

Latest Briefing: What makes ethnic group populations grow? Age structures and immigration.

Who feels British?	Has neighbourhood segregation decreased?

How can we count immigration and integration?	Does Britain have plural cities?
More segregation or more mixing?	How has ethnic diversity grown 1991-2001-2011?

The briefings are funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation and CoDE.