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Religion and ethnicity in the labour market - exploratory analysis
Frances Forsyth and Ben Bradford, Office for National Statistics
[Project number 20078]
The 'ethnic penalty' in the labour market is now well known (Heath and
McMahon, 1997; Cheung and Heath, 2004, forthcoming). It is not clear whether
religion is also a contributory factor, either in its own right or in
combination with ethnicity. The study will model the employment status
of different ethnic/religious groups, controlling for age, sex, country
of birth, highest qualification and various other factors, in order to
determine whether a religious penalty is evident and its nature. Models
similar to those developed by Cheung and Heath in their exploration of
the ethnic penalty (2004) will be adapted for religion.
The project will use the following census and events data:
- 2001 Census data
- Ecological variables
This project was approved on 04 November 2004 and is supported by ONS.