The measurement of racial discrimination: the policy use of statistics

Abstract

Most ‘multicultural societies’ in the world attempt to act against racial discrimination and some, admittedly less numerous, have adopted pro‐active equality policies based on statistical monitoring. Intensive use of statistics is a requirement for action against indirect discrimination, a legal concept imported into European Union countries since 2000. However, design and collection of statistical data providing information on racial discrimination calls for the establishment of a technical apparatus that raises issues of political strategy and action methodology. Using the results of a comparative study of the statistics used in anti‐discrimination policy in the USA, the UK, Canada, and Australia, this analysis compares the various categories and modes of collection by setting them in context in order to reveal the compromises made between the legal and political imperatives of the struggle against discrimination and the aim of identity recognition within the multicultural project.

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