Nationality definitely needs to be ticky boxes; a person might easily have two or even three. Heck, my spouse has Irish citizenship despite never having lived there; his parents were part of the "get more citizens" drive in his youth. Helped, when he want on foreign study, as he was technically an EC member and eligible to work.
3 were you born & raised where you currently live? a) yes, always had the same nationality
A "yes" on this would not necessarily mean they've always been in one place or do not have multiple citizenships. I'd leave the yes at just a plain "yes" and rely on the other questions to triangulate the further info.
The born and raised list should also allow multiple selections; service kids, at the very least, might well need to list multiple.
On four, you might actually get closer answers to what you're looking for if you asked whether someone is "Western/Westernized". Which encodes race for sure, but might be a more common /term/ for what you want.
I suspect 5 would be a bust, for the reasons you cite; you'd get reasonably accurate reports from those who really have suffered institutionalized discrimination, but you would also get people checking the "religion" box because someone told them to have happy holidays instead of merry christmas. If you had a text box to describe in brief what kind of discrimination it was, you would get a very fine data source on what different groups think of as discrimination, but I think that's the most data you could get from it.
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Date: 15 May 2010 07:14 pm (UTC)3 were you born & raised where you currently live?
a) yes, always had the same nationality
A "yes" on this would not necessarily mean they've always been in one place or do not have multiple citizenships. I'd leave the yes at just a plain "yes" and rely on the other questions to triangulate the further info.
The born and raised list should also allow multiple selections; service kids, at the very least, might well need to list multiple.
On four, you might actually get closer answers to what you're looking for if you asked whether someone is "Western/Westernized". Which encodes race for sure, but might be a more common /term/ for what you want.
I suspect 5 would be a bust, for the reasons you cite; you'd get reasonably accurate reports from those who really have suffered institutionalized discrimination, but you would also get people checking the "religion" box because someone told them to have happy holidays instead of merry christmas. If you had a text box to describe in brief what kind of discrimination it was, you would get a very fine data source on what different groups think of as discrimination, but I think that's the most data you could get from it.