Durham County Council Trading Standards Equalities Monitoring Survey 2006/2007

To ensure that our Trading Standards Service is accessible to all sectors of our community, we regularly seek feedback on the background of our users. This includes information about age, gender, disability and ethnicity.

1500 questionnaires were sent out with 405 returned (27% return rate). A copy of the questionnaire & results are shown below.

Questionnaire/Results Table

Please help us to better understand your needs by telling us a few details about yourself.

1. What is your ethnic group?

Choose one section from a to e, then tick the appropriate box in coloumn (2) and also (3) if applicable.

Column 1	Column 2	Results	Column 3	Results
a) White	British Irish Any other White background	330 2	Welsh English Scottish	2 222 10
b) Mixed	White & Black background White & Black Caribbean White & Black African White & Asian Any other Mixed background
c) Asian or Asian British	Indian Pakistani Bangladeshi Any other Asian background
d) Black or Black British	Caribbean African Any other Black background
e)Chinese or Other Ethnic Group	Chinese Any other	1

2. Gender: Female = 246, Male = 155

3. Age: Please tick relevant box. 18 - 34 = 56, 35 - 54 = 211, 55+ = 138

4. Disability: Do you consider yourself to be someone who has a physical or mental impairment which has a substantial and long term adverse effect on your ability to carry out normal day to day activities?

Yes = 86, No=309