Intermarriage Between 'White' Britons and Immigrants from the New Commonwealth and Pakistan.

This article presents information on intermarriage between White Britons and immigrants from the New Commonwealth and Pakistan. The data presented in this paper are drawn from the 1983 General Household Survey of Great Britain. The data set was made available by arrangement with the Economic and Social Science Research Council Data Archive at the University of Essex, in England. Although some 25,000 households were sampled in the 1983 General Household Survey and !me of these households contained more than one married couple only 5140 married couples were retained for analysis. In 1983, approximately 4.3% of all United Kingdom residents were considered non-white in terms of ethnic origin. This percentage includes those described as mixed. The East Indians composed by far the largest ethnic minority with approximately 789,000 or 1.5%. The West Indian population numbered approximately 510,000, or less than 1% of the total, and was the second largest group. The majority of intermarriages had been contracted since 1975 or within the last eight years.