Other inequities relate to the racial and ethnic background of students, gender, geography, mother tongue, and immigrant status.
The Ternovskiys are proud of their Russian ethnic background, but they have a complicated relationship with the motherland.
It binds together people from different social strata and ethnic background with diverse social practices, beliefs, professions and languages.
But information about ethnic background can also refine descriptions of an unknown person.
The public were asked questions about their jobs, health, education and ethnic background.
"You cannot house 90 individuals from a totally different ethnic background on green fields, they must have facilities, " he said.
The Department for Education (DfE) said it recommended parents and guardians should determine the ethnic background for their children at primary schools.
People are asked questions about their jobs, health, education and ethnic background.
Wendler hopes to build up a broader data bank of personal profiles, which will include age, gender, religious and ethnic background, to advance the software.
Olivas, who came to the United States at age 4, participated in sports that many American girls have already adopted, regardless of racial or ethnic background.
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However, some conservatives in the Hispanic community said a judicial nominee's ethnic background and life story are not as important as his or her interpretations of the law.
The census - which is used to plan public services - is carried out every 10 years, during which the public are asked questions about their jobs, health, education and ethnic background.
As a Palestinian-American, the Jets' offensive lineman is a rarity in the NFL. Aboushi, drafted in the fifth round out after a standout career at the University of Virginia, is one of just a handful of players with that ethnic background.
North Wales Police said it was on target to reach the 2009 deadline for recruiting the number of officers, which reflect the region's working population from an ethnic minority background.
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Kwik's ethnic Chinese background, for instance, could have as great an impact on the sentiment of wealthy Chinese entrepreneurs who moved much of their capital offshore as any specific policies he may implement.
The inventory was made on two levels, national and regional-local according to the existing administrative divisions, and combined the territorial principle with classification according to ethnic and religious background as these two factors often coincided.
At each stop children were getting on and off - they were of every ethnic and religious background, some with scarves or turbans, some talking quietly, others playing and occasionally misbehaving together - completely at ease and trusting one another.
Mr Mydat said his claims about some schools not wanting ethnic minority supply teachers are against a background in which most schools have become much more professional about hiring supply teachers.
Nearly six million inhabitants have an Italian background, making it the largest ethnic group in the city, and more than half a million are Japanese.
Recently, a number of Spanish scholars, such as Jose Erugo, Celso Garcia de la Riega, Otero Sanchez and Nicholas Dias Perez, have concluded that Columbus was a Marrano, whose survival depended upon the suppression of all evidence of his Jewish background in face of the brutal, systematic ethnic cleansing.
Riffel cooks simple, fresh South African food, using local ingredients prepared in a style strongly influenced by his Cape Malay background. (The Cape Malay community comprises ethnic Malays who began to emigrate to Cape Town more than 200 years ago.) "The food Reuben cooks is the food I knew growing up in the region, " says Ntezo.
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