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OCR A LEVEL Sociology Paper 2 H580-02 Researching and Understanding Social Inequalities June 2022 QUESTION PAPER QP

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Li and Heath carried out a longitudinal study of the disadvantages faced by ethnic minorities in the UK in relation to unemployment and earnings. They used secondary quantitative data from the Unite ... d Kingdom Longitudinal Household Study (UKLHS), a large scale survey carried out by the University of Essex. This collected data from the same sample of people, once a year for six years, between 2009 and 2015. People in the sample were classified into one of ten ethnic categories with sample sizes as follows: 41656 White British 1149 White Irish 2382 White Other 1328 Black Caribbean 1947 Black African 2551 Indian 2220 Pakistani 1433 Bangladeshi 329 Chinese 2810 Other. One area the study focused on was the extent of ethnic disadvantage in relation to unemployment. The data showed that most ethnic minority groups were more, and some much more, likely than white British to be unemployed. Thus while the overall unemployment rates for men and women across the six years were 10% and 8% respectively, nearly a quarter (24%) of black Caribbean men and over a quarter of Pakistani women (26%) were unemployed. [Show More]

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