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In 1987, I was invited to become chair of the Advisory
Committee on Social Conditions at Statistics Canada. One
of the first tasks undertaken by this external group of
experts was to review the question on ethnic ancestry and
make recommendations for the 1991 census. The work initiated
my long-standing interest in how people define themselves
as members of an “ethnos” – a collectivity that has a shared
history and a sense of membership – and how the wording
of questions can influence that definition. Between 2000
and 2004, I served on the Advisory Committee for the Ethnic
Diversity Survey and I am now analyzing this survey with
respect to how question wording affects ethnic responses.
Select Bibliography on Ethnicity
| 2008 |
Unstable Ethnicities:
Impacts of Question Wording and Respondent
Characteristics (Monica Boyd and Naoko Shida). Presented
at the annual meeting of the Canadian Population Society,
Vancouver, June 4-6. |
| 2008 |
The Transnational Dimensions
of Ethnic Self-Identification (Monica Boyd and Jessica
Yiu). Presented at the annual meeting of the Canadian
Sociological Association, Vancouver, June 3-5. |
| 2007 |
At the Margins? Ethnic
Diversity within Canada’s Muslim Population. (Monica
Boyd and Phillipa Chong). Paper presented at the 2007
annual meeting of the Canadian Population Society, Saskatoon,
Saskatchewan, May 31-June 2. |
| 2001 |
Who
are the "Canadians"? Changing Census Responses,
1986-1996. (Monica Boyd and Doug Norris). Canadian
Ethnic Studies. 33(1): 1-25 (lead article). |
| 2000 |
Race
in the Canadian Census (Monica Boyd, Gustave Goldman
and Pamela White. Pp. 33-54 in Leo Driedger and Shiva
Halli (eds) Visible Minorities in Canada. Montreal
and Toronto: McGill, Queens and Carleton University
Press. |
| 1999 |
Canadian,
eh? Ethnic Origin Shifts in the Canadian Census.
Canadian Ethnic Studies. 31 (3): 1-19. Lead article.
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| 1999 |
Constructing
Ethnic Responses: Socioeconomic and Media Effects.
Working Paper Series 99 - 96-133. Center for the Study
of Population and Demography. Florida State University. |
| 1999 |
Increasingly
Canadian: Ethnic Origin Shifts in Canada’s Metropolitan
Areas. (Monica Boyd and Doug Norris). Working Paper
Series 99-143. Center for the Study of Population and
Demography. Florida State University. |
| 1997 |
Offspring-Parent
Shifts in Ancestry: Ethnic Bedrock or Ethnic Quicksand?
Working Paper Series 97-138. Center for the Study of
Population and Demography. Florida State University. |
| 1994 |
Measuring
Ethnicity in the Future: Population, Policies, Politics
and Social Science Research. Pp. 529-545 in Gustave
Goldmann and Nampeo Mckenny (eds.) Challenges of
Measuring an Ethnic World: Science, Politics and Reality.
Ottawa and Washington, D.C.: Statistics Canada and the
Untied States Bureau of the Census. |
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