What is the ‘ethnicity data gap’ – and how is EVENS closing it?

30 September 2026

Professor Nissa Finney has authored a blog and Case Study in collaboration with the UK Data Service - 
Data Impact blog: What is the ‘ethnicity data gap’ – and how is EVENS closing it?

Nissa Finney, Professor of Human Geography at the University of St Andrews, explains how the Evidence for Equality National Survey (EVENS) set out to close Britain’s ‘ethnicity data gap’ – and why it’s now being used as a model for how inclusive data should be done.

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