TMA03 DD101 Using the data in the table provided, what can you say about the ethnicity of the population in the national parks of England and Wales?
TMA03 DD101 APRIL 2014.
Question 1
Using the data in the table provided, what can you say about the ethnicity of the population in the national parks of England and Wales?
The table provided shows the results of the 2011 Census and the distribution of multiple ethnic groups around the national parks of England and Wales. The table gives the populations of 13 National Parks. Three of the national parks are found in Wales and ten are in England. There are 5 ethnic categories; white, mixed, Asian, black and other. These are divided into 18 sub-categories. The first column shows the total number of people usually resident in that national park. The park with the highest overall population was South Downs National Park with 112,343 people. The lowest overall population was Northumberland National Park with 1,993 people. Both of these parks are in England. The three Welsh parks had a total mean average population of 27,230. Over 90% of the population in all the national parks is White British. The second largest number of people is found in the White: Other category, although the table does not specify where these people originate from. Northumberland has the least ethnically diverse population with 8 of the sub-categories containing no people at all. South Downs was the most ethnically diverse with all of its sub-categories containing over 30 people, in most cases, many more than that. Four of the parks; Brecon Beacons, Peak District, New Forest and Dartmoor had similar total numbers of residents, between 33,000 and 38,000 people. These four parks show very similar percentage results in all categories except one, Asian. The Asian population in the Brecon Beacons was 2%, in the other three parks it was much less than 1%. The sub-category that increased the numbers in the Asian population in Brecon was that of British; Other Asian. In Brecon there were 540 in this group, in the other parks there were less than 100 people in each. In Snowdonia and
Question 1
Using the data in the table provided, what can you say about the ethnicity of the population in the national parks of England and Wales?
The table provided shows the results of the 2011 Census and the distribution of multiple ethnic groups around the national parks of England and Wales. The table gives the populations of 13 National Parks. Three of the national parks are found in Wales and ten are in England. There are 5 ethnic categories; white, mixed, Asian, black and other. These are divided into 18 sub-categories. The first column shows the total number of people usually resident in that national park. The park with the highest overall population was South Downs National Park with 112,343 people. The lowest overall population was Northumberland National Park with 1,993 people. Both of these parks are in England. The three Welsh parks had a total mean average population of 27,230. Over 90% of the population in all the national parks is White British. The second largest number of people is found in the White: Other category, although the table does not specify where these people originate from. Northumberland has the least ethnically diverse population with 8 of the sub-categories containing no people at all. South Downs was the most ethnically diverse with all of its sub-categories containing over 30 people, in most cases, many more than that. Four of the parks; Brecon Beacons, Peak District, New Forest and Dartmoor had similar total numbers of residents, between 33,000 and 38,000 people. These four parks show very similar percentage results in all categories except one, Asian. The Asian population in the Brecon Beacons was 2%, in the other three parks it was much less than 1%. The sub-category that increased the numbers in the Asian population in Brecon was that of British; Other Asian. In Brecon there were 540 in this group, in the other parks there were less than 100 people in each. In Snowdonia and
References: Hinchcliffe. S. 2009 ‘Connecting people and places’ in Taylor. S, Hinchcliffe. S, Clarke. J, Bromley. S (eds) Making Social Lives. Milton Keynes. The Open University. Taylor. S. 2009 ‘Who do we think we are? Identities in everyday life’ in Taylor. S, Hinchcliffe. S, Clarke. J, Bromley. S (eds) Making Social Lives. Milton Keynes. The Open University.