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Table 3 Ethnicity of Cases Following Linkage with HES and NBSS Datasets

From: Use of name recognition software, census data and multiple imputation to predict missing data on ethnicity: application to cancer registry records

Ethnic group

Cases with ethnic group recorded in HES (%)

Cases with unknown ethnicity resolved by NBSS linkage

Ethnic breakdown of cohort following use of HES and NBSS (%)

White

81 934

(73.4)

1053

82 987

(74.3)

South Asian

1545

(1.4)

13

1558

(1.4)

Black

1429

(1.3)

11

1440

(1.3)

Chinese/Other

303

(0.3)

3

306

(0.3)

Mixed

141

(0.1)

2

143

(0.1)

Not known

26 342

(23.6)

 

26 331

(22.6)

Total

111 694

1082

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