Minority ethnic groups in Britain

This paper is the second in a series of Census Briefs produced by CASE and inspired by the work of the Brookings Institution in the United States whose Center on Urban and Metropolitan Policy has played a creative role in informing and in part helping shape the recovery of US cities. The series aims to help advance the debate on the future of cities and towns in Britain by presenting evidence of key urban and neighbourhood trends during the 1990s, using evidence from the 1991 and 2001 Censuses. The first paper in the series covered population growth and decline in Britain's cities and regions. This one looks more closely at changes in the size and distribution of minority ethnic groups, nationally and within the major conurbations where they are concentrated.