This study was the fourth in a series of national surveys of ethnic minorities. The main objectives were:to describe the social and economic conditions of Britain's main ethnic minority groups, including their health, and to compare these with the social and economic conditions of the white majorityto assess changes over time through comparisons with other workto show how the position of ethnic minority groups is related to the social and ethnic compositions of the areas in which they liveto explore diversity among different ethnic minority groupsto describe perceptions and experience of racial discrimination and social harassment Topics covered include household structure, neighbourhoods and quality of housing, education, employment, health, racial harassment and discrimination, and ethnic identity.