Ethnicity Questions Asia
Asia — Batch 1: Bahrain, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Brunei, Cambodia, and China
China
- Status
- Yes
- Year
- 2020
- Form
- Seventh National Population Census — Short and Long Forms
- Question
- D6 / C6
Responses:
| Response / code | Option |
|---|---|
| Response | Write the person's ethnic group (民族) |
| Foreign citizen note | A foreigner who has acquired Chinese citizenship is instructed to select a Chinese ethnic group when applicable, or 'Naturalized' when no matching group exists. |
Question type: 2 — open/coded ethnic-group item
Notes: Ethnicity is a core person-level census item in both the short and long forms.
Source: China
Hong Kong
- Status
- Yes
- Year
- 2021
- Form
- 2021 Population Census — Long Form / Short Form
- Question
- P10b(i), P10b(ii) (Long); C7 (Short)
Responses:
| Response / code | Option |
|---|---|
| 01 | Chinese (including Hanzu, Manzu, Mongol, Hui, Tibetan and other Chinese minorities) |
| 41 | Bangladeshi |
| 42 | Filipino |
| 43 | Indian |
| 44 | Indonesian |
| 45 | Japanese |
| 46 | Korean |
| 47 | Nepalese |
| 48 | Pakistani |
| 49 | Sri Lankan |
| 50 | Thai |
| 51 | Vietnamese |
| 52 | Malay |
| 54 | Turk |
| 59 | Other Asian |
| 69 | White |
| 89 | Black |
| 92 | Others |
Question type: 3 — ethnicity classification with multiple-ethnicity capability
Notes: The Technical Report says the classification draws on ethnic origin, colour, descent, cultural origins, nationality and language, and that questionnaire design facilitated reporting more than one ethnicity.
Source: 2021 Long Form (English) 2021 Short Form (English) 2021 Technical Report
Kazakhstan
- Status
- Yes
- Year
- 2021
- Form
- National Population Census — Individual (Index 3-I)
- Question
- Q10
Responses:
| Response / code | Option |
|---|---|
| 1 | Kazakh |
| 2 | Russian |
| 3 | Other — specify |
| 4 | Unspecified |
Question type: 1 — nationality/ethnicity categories with other write-in
Notes: The form labels the section Ethnocultural characteristics and combines nationality/ethnicity in Q10.
Source: 2021 Individual Form
Kyrgyzstan
- Status
- Yes
- Year
- 2022
- Form
- Population and Housing Census — Form 2
- Question
- Q7
Responses:
| Response / code | Option |
|---|---|
| 11 | Kyrgyz |
| 5 | Kazakh |
| 1 | Russian |
| 12 | Tajik |
| 4 | Uzbek |
| Other | Other ethnicity — specify which |
Question type: 1 — coded ethnicity item plus other-ethnicity write-in
Notes: The ethnicity question is also present in Forms 4 and 5.
Source: 2022 Census Forms (English)
Malaysia
- Status
- Yes
- Year
- 2020
- Form
- Population and Housing Census Questionnaire — E. Person Particulars
- Question
- E8
Responses:
| Response / code | Option |
|---|---|
| Response structure | The supplied English question-list identifies the ethnicity question but does not reproduce response categories. |
Question type: 1 — ethnic-group question; response categories not shown in supplied question-list
Notes: The item is explicitly labelled ethnic group.
Source: 2020 Questionnaire (English)
Mongolia
- Status
- Yes
- Year
- 2020
- Form
- Population and Housing Census — Individual Questionnaire
- Question
- Q6
Responses:
| Response / code | Option |
|---|---|
| 1 | Khalkh |
| Other | Other — specify |
Question type: 1 — single-select ethnicity with other write-in
Notes: The supplied form explicitly labels Q6 as ethnicity.
Source: Mongolia 2020 enumeration form
Nepal
- Status
- Yes
- Year
- 2021
- Form
- National Population and Housing Census — Main Questionnaire
- Question
- Individual Information
Responses:
| Response / code | Option |
|---|---|
| Response structure | Coded caste/ethnicity classification in the Nepali questionnaire |
Question type: 1 — coded caste/ethnicity classification
Notes: The English microdata documentation explicitly lists caste/ethnicity as an individual characteristic.
Source: Nepal 2021 questionnaire
Philippines
- Status
- Yes
- Year
- 2020
- Form
- 2020 Census of Population and Housing — CPH Form 2
- Question
- P11
Responses:
| Response / code | Option |
|---|---|
| P11 | Ethnicity — specify/code from PSA code book |
Question type: 2 — coded ethnicity with Indigenous Peoples/non-IP framing
Notes: The form explicitly asks ethnicity by descent, blood relation or consanguinity and refers to the PSA code book.
Vietnam
- Status
- Yes
- Year
- 2019
- Form
- 2019 Population and Housing Census — Household questionnaire
- Question
- Q6
Responses:
| Response / code | Option |
|---|---|
| 1 | Kinh |
| 2 | Other ethnic group — name of ethnic group |
Question type: 2 — coded ethnicity with other-ethnicity write-in
Notes: Q6 is an explicit person-level ethnicity question.
Source: Vietnam 2019 enumeration form Vietnam 2019 housing form
Palau
- Status
- Yes
- Year
- 2020
- Form
- 2020 Census of Population and Housing — Section C
- Question
- C1
Responses:
| Response / code | Option |
|---|---|
| 1 | Palauan |
| 2 | Carolinian |
| 3 | Asian |
| 4 | Caucasian |
| 5 | Black |
| 6 | Other — write in |
Question type: 2 — combined ethnic-origin/race item
Notes: The same C1 question is intentionally included on both the Ethnicity and Race pages because the Palau questionnaire explicitly combines ethnic origin and race in a single question. The census report identifies C1 as the source of ethnic-origin/race data.
Cross-reference: This exact question is also listed on the Asia Race Questions page.
Source: Palau 2020 Census questionnaire