Race includes colour, nationality, and ethnic or national origin
Equality Act 2010
Othering
"To view or treat (a person or group of people) as intrinsically different from and alien to oneself."
Datasets or terminology which combine a diverse group of people under a heading like "other" can be othering. We lose our understanding of the diversity of the group. It can make people feel excluded, and contribute to them being marginalised.
Several of these datasets use 'other'. We have retained this term to accurately reflect the source data. We are reviewing our own data collection to avoid this term in future.
Context
Race and ethnicity in Scotland
Physical activity and sport
There is very limited national data on physical activity, sport and race and ethnicity. The Tackling Racism and Racial Inequality In Sport study explains this in more depth. The limited data we have suggests lower levels of physical activity and less participation in sport in Pakistani adults. (Active Scotland Outcomes Indicator Equality Analysis).
See the equality and sport research for more information on our characteristics and physical activity.
Participation in our key programmes
Representation from different ethnic groups is similar across school, club and high performance athletes
We can't draw strong conclusions as the numbers are small. Participation in our programmes appears broadly similar to representation in the Scottish population.
