Ethnic, language, religious group

1. Ethnic, language, religious group Use of 2000 census recommendations and proposals for improvement

2. Ethnic group

3. Language group

4. Religious group

5. Proposals: ethnic group • Enlarge paragraph on ethnic groups • Proposal of a definition • Insist on the distinction from questions on language, religion and nationality (in the sense of citizenship!) • Delete notion of national group (?) • Insist on the need for explanation of concepts and documentation of classification procedures • Introduce optional question on ethnic origin/ancestry • Adress issue of children from mixed marriages and problem of multiple identiites • What about registers: can data on ethnicity be collected through registers (?)

6. Proposals: language groups • Insist on need for clear spelling out definitions during field work and documentation of classification procedures • Drop priority of main language before mother tongue and priority of spoken language before knowledge of languages • Propose a common classification of languages? • What about registers: Can they give information on language?

7. Proposals: religious groups • Change list of proposed questions: drop question on practices. • Introduce questions on identification with community or denomination and question on denomination in which a person was brought up • Possibility to answer « none » • Insist on need for documentation of classifications • Propose a common classification of religious denominations (?) • What about registers: can they give information on religion?