- Friday, April 19, 2024
By: Eastern Eye Staff
SIKHISM is being considered as a separate ethnicity in the UK census in 2021, following a long-standing demand by some British Sikh groups. The Office for National Statistics (ONS) opened a public consultation over whether to add a separate box for Sikhs under ethnicity, instead of just as a religion, and is set to present its findings to the government. The ONS raised concerns over the issue of “public acceptability” and whether the move would have the support of Britain’s 430,000-strong Sikh community. In the last census in 2011, an estimated 83,000 Sikhs reportedly did not tick any of the…
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