Discrimination is less favourable treatment of an individual or group on the basis of particular characteristics, like:
- ethnicity
- race, or
- religious beliefs.
This treatment then results in:
- negative, or
- adverse
consequences.
Outcomes
This indicator supports an outcome of Resilience.
Ways to measure
Ways to measure for this indicator include:
- the Everyday Discrimination Scale
- the General Ethnic Discrimination Scale
- perceived personal discrimination and perceived group discrimination.
See the Countering Violent Extremism Evaluation Indicator Document [pages 30-45] for practical suggestions on ways to measure, such as:
- survey instruments
- example questions
- using administrative data.