Data in England and Wales shows: Sikhs are healthier and better at looking after elderly relatives

RELIGIONS NEWS AGENCY (REDNA) – The Office for National Statistics (ONS) has released  statistics exploring  outcomes from the 2021 Census for those who identify as Sikh.

The data, for England and Wales, is compared with the broader population, highlighting a variety of trends, including comparative levels of home ownership, employment, educational attainment, health, and marriage.

Sikhs are healthier than the wider population and more own their homes.

Just under a third live in multi-family and multi-generational families, compared with 11.1 per cent for the rest of the population.

Sikhs are more likely to be married (and married younger) and less likely to be divorced.

Just over a third, 36.7 per cent, said they had a qualification, at least equivalent to a bachelor’s degree, or post-graduate qualifications, compared with 33.8 per cent for the full population.

Older age groups, however, had fewer qualifications in comparison.