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🔗 Suicide rates in people of South Asian origin in England and Wales: 1993-2003 -- McKenzie et al. 193 (5): 406 -- The British Journal of Psychiatry

The South Asian Name and Group Recognition Algorithm (SANGRA) identifies South Asian individuals in data-sets by matching their names to the names in its directory. SANGRA has been validated using health-related electronic data containing names and self-assigned ethnicity, and has been used in a number of other epidemiological studies. Its reported sensitivity is 89–96% and specificity 94–98% for self-assigned ethnicity census categories Asian Bangladeshi',Asian Indian' or `Asian Pakistani'.