EDITOR—We agree with Jarman and Aylin that recording of ethnic group on death certificates needs to be improved in the United Kingdom.1 Currently, country of birth has been included in each UK census since 1841 and is a readily available and objective, although crude, method of ethnic group classification.2 Indeed it remains a good proxy for ethnic group for …
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Gill et al. (2005) studied this question.