Measuring ethnicity in a multicultural context

Alvin M. Chan

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    Abstract

    With the surge in international migration, marketers are increasingly interested in the responsiveness of different ethnic groups to marketing stimuli. However, the lack of a clear definition of ethnicity and the absence of reliable and valid operational measures of ethnicity have hindered theoretical development in ethnic research and consequently its practical application in marketing. Based on official measures of cultural diversity in Australia in the past and at present, we develop a multi-item index to measure, respectively, Australian and Chinese ethnicity. The new index is argued to have high degree of content validity. The index was tested with a cross-cultural sample of Australian university students and shown to have high discriminant validity in distinguishing Australian ethnicity from Chinese ethnicity.
    Original languageEnglish
    Title of host publicationProceedings of International Conference on Business and Information (BAI2011): July 4-6, 2011, The Landmark Bangkok Hotel, Bangkok, Thailand
    PublisherInternational Business Academics Consortium & Academy of Taiwan Information Systems Research
    Number of pages8
    Publication statusPublished - 2011
    EventInternational Conference on Business and Information -
    Duration: 4 Jul 2011 → …

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    ISSN (Print)1729-9322

    Conference

    ConferenceInternational Conference on Business and Information
    Period4/07/11 → …

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