Notes
The question asked ‘How would the person describe him/herself?’ Thus population group reflects the respondent’s chosen identification and does not reflect any ‘official’ definition. Interviewers were instructed: ‘Accept the response that is given even if you don’t agree’.
Only four options were provided on the questionnaire (African/Black, Coloured, Indian/Asian and White). Respondents were not given an option of ‘Other’.
During Census ’96 when some people whom identified as Griquas requested to be identified as a separate population group. At short notice, instructions were changed to allow interviewers to write ‘5 Griqua’ on the questionnaire and these responses were coded separately. However, the number of people identifying themselves as Griqua was small and represented an under-identification of the number of people who would have been identified as Griquas if there had been such a category on the questionnaire to indicate that this was a valid response. People identifying as ‘Griqua’ have been included with ‘Unspecified’.
