Birth decades and common surnames of current students
Dear Aston University,
The information I am requesting will provide insight into how diverse the current student body is in terms of students within various age brackets, as well as students from different ethnic backgrounds, but without identifying any specific individuals.
Please could you provide the following information:
1. How many current students were born in the following decades? Provide figures for each decade.
1920s
1930s
1940s
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2. How many current students have the following surnames? Provide figures for each surname.
Ahmad
Ahmed
Akhtar
Ali
Begum
Bibi
Brown
Chan
Chen
Chowdhury
Davies
Devi
Evans
Fernandes
Garcia
Harris
Hassan
Huang
Hughes
Hussain
Iqbal
Islam
Johnson
Jones
Kaur
Khan
Kim
Kumar
Lee
Li
Liu
Lu
Mahmood
Malik
Maung
Miah
Mistry
Mohamed
Mohammed
Nguyen
Patel
Rahman
Roberts
Rodriguez
Shah
Sharma
Singh
Smith
Sun
Taylor
Thomas
Uddin
Walker
Williams
Wilson
Wang
Wong
Wu
Xu
Yang
Yu
Zhang
Zhao
Zhou
Zhu
Note that these are some of the most common surnames in the world, and information is typically deemed to be fully anonymised if there are at least 3-5 individuals to whom the information could refer to. This is the basis used in the publication of academic studies, which have to comply with the Data Protection Act 2018.
If any surnames fall below the anonymisation threshold (context must be taken into account to determine the exact figure), please could you replace the figures for such surnames with an asterisk.
If possible, I would appreciate receiving the data in CSV or Excel format.
Yours faithfully,
Alan Smith
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