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Table 2 Participant self-labelled racial/ethnic background descriptives split by data set

From: The Australian Racism, Acceptance, and Cultural-Ethnocentrism Scale (RACES): item response theory findings

Racial/ethnic background

Primary school

15–20 years

Community

Total sample

Australian

129 (47 %)

50 (34 %)

99 (38 %)

228 (42 %)

Chinese

3 (1 %)

8 (5 %)

18 (7 %)

21 (4 %)

English

14 (5 %)

3 (2 %)

5 (2 %)

19 (4 %)

Anglo-Saxon

11 (4 %)

-

2 (1 %)

13 (2 %)

Indian

5 (2 %)

6 (4 %)

8 (3 %)

13 (2 %)

English/Australian

8 (3 %)

2 (1 %)

4 (2 %)

12 (2 %)

Afghani

10 (4 %)

1 (1 %)

1 (0 %)

11 (2 %)

Indigenous Australian

1 (0 %)

4 (3 %)

7 (3 %)

8 (1 %)

New Zealander

6 (2 %)

1 (1 %)

2 (1 %)

8 (1 %)

New Zealander/Australian

6 (2 %)

1 (1 %)

1 (0 %)

7 (1 %)

Vietnamese

-

3 (2 %)

7 (3 %)

7 (1 %)

Dutch

4 (1 %)

-

1 (0 %)

5 (1 %)

Indonesian

1 (0 %)

3 (2 %)

4 (2 %)

5 (1 %)

Sri Lankan

3 (1 %)

1 (1 %)

2 (1 %)

5 (1 %)

Chinese/Australian

-

3 (2 %)

4 (2 %)

4 (1 %)

Filipino

2 (1 %)

2 (1 %)

2 (1 %)

4 (1 %)

Greek/Australian

2 (1 %)

1 (1 %)

2 (1 %)

4 (1 %)

Other

67 (25 %)

58 (40 %)

94 (36 %)

179 (30 %)

  1. Note: Other denotes racial/ethnic background not otherwise listed. Percentages may not sum to 100 % due to rounding