Surname lists to identify South Asian and Chinese ethnicity from secondary data in Ontario, Canada: A validation study

BMC Medical Research Methodology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Shah, Baiju R ^a,b,c   Chiu, Maria ^a,b   Amin, Shubarna ^b   Ramani, Meera ^b   Sadry, Sharon ^b   Tu, Jack V ^a,b,c  

^a INSTITUTE FOR CLINICAL EVALUATIVE SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^c SUNNYBROOK RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASIA; ASIAN; CANADA; CHINA; ETHNIC GROUP; ETHNOLOGY; HUMAN; MIGRATION; MINORITY GROUP; NOMENCLATURE; QUESTIONNAIRE; REGISTER; STATISTICS; VALIDATION STUDY;

ASIA; ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; CHINA; EMIGRATION AND IMMIGRATION; ETHNIC GROUPS; HUMANS; MINORITY GROUPS; NAMES; ONTARIO; QUESTIONNAIRES; REGISTRIES;

EID: 77952903578     PISSN: None     EISSN: 14712288     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-2288-10-42     Document Type: Article

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