White: Gypsy or Irish Traveller
Ethnicity classification used in the 2011 United Kingdom Census / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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White: Gypsy or Irish Traveller is an ethnicity classification used in the 2011 United Kingdom Census. In the 2011 census, the White: Gypsy or Irish Traveller population was 63,193 or about 0.1 per cent of the total population of the country. The ethnicity category may encompass populace from the distinct ethnic groups of Romanichal Travellers or Irish Travellers, and their respective related subgroupings, who identify as, or are perceived to be, white people in the United Kingdom.
Total population | |
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United Kingdom: 63,193 – 0.1% (2011)[1] England: 64,205 – 0.1% (2021)[2] Scotland: 4,212 – 0.08% (2011)[1] Wales: 3,552 – 0.1% (2021)[2] Northern Ireland: 2,609 – 0.1% (2021)[note 1][3] | |
Languages | |
Angloromani · British English · Hiberno-English · Shelta Beurla Reagaird · Irish · Welsh Romani | |
Religion | |
Predominantly Christianity Note |
Within Britain, England and Wales statistics (which make up around 95 per cent of the UK's census data) designate the category as the article describes.[4] The Scottish census lists the category, in a slightly different form, as 'White: Gypsy/Traveller'.
In Northern Ireland, where only the term 'White' is used in ethnic classification, 'Irish Traveller' is listed as a separate "ethnic group" to 'White'. The Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, however, does treat 'Irish Traveller' as a subgroup of 'White' in census data analysis.[5]