ABSTRACT
This chapter describes deprivation amongst ethnic minority children in England by taking the children as the subject of the study. The differences between England and Poor England are very significant for white children but less so for ethnic minority children, as shown by the mean deprivation scores. Ethnic minority children are more deprived than white, wherever they live. Black Caribbean children are three times as likely to be in high deprivation as white children, Pakistani children nearly three times as likely and Bangladeshi children nearly five times. These ratios are consistent with the findings of the Policy Studies Institute (PSI) survey. The PSI survey is the only survey specifically targeted at the minority populations. It has a small sample compared to the Sample of Anonymised Records (SAR), and is much less suitable for generating data at the regional and sub-regional levels. For the first time in the history of the British census authors have a SAR.
