Experian Origins software: a tool for monitoring inequalities in BME health

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Experian Origins software a tool for monitoring
inequalities in BME health?

• Louise Noon
• NHS Nottingham City

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Why do we need it?

• Race relations (amendment) Act 2000 gives
  statutory duty to promote race equality
• Poor data quality recorded on ethnicity either in
  hospital or by GP
• Census 2001 now out of date
• Nam Pehchan software only estimates South Asian

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What does it do?

• Assigns one of 180 types, 13 groups, language and
  religion
• Based on likely origin of name
• Larger database of names than Nam Pehchan (600
  000 vs. 9000)
• Local look up table converts type to Census
  categories or bespoke groups

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Validation

• Checked against 2007 births data which has
  ethnicity coded by Census 2001 categories
• 2001 PopX data checked against ward ethnic
  summaries from Census 2001
• Good general agreement except for Black Caribbean

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Breast screening uptake 06/07(women aged 53-64)
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Evaluation

• Provides ethnicity data where there is no
  alternative
• Potential to carry out HEA across dimension of
  ethnicity
• Can be run on up-to-date populations
• Can identify Polish and other types not in
  the Census
• -Needs further validation
• -Doesnt deal well with African/Caribbean