The UK body responsible for holding the 2021 census has rejected demands that ‘Sikh’ should be a separate ethnic identifier on the ground that it would “not be acceptable to a proportion of the Sikh population”

Sikhs demand a reassessment of the Office for National Statistics (ONS) decision to reject the need for an additional tick box​ for the Sikhs. We urge the ONS to add a separate ethnicity tick box in the next UK census in 2021