British Sikhs better educated than UK’s

The UK Sikh Survey 2016 – the largest and most comprehensive ever Sikh survey in the UK, with 4,559 respondents – which was released on Friday, has found 69% of Sikhs in UK are born there, and there are five time more chances that Sikhs would be members of a political party.

Some other key findings include Sikhs twice as more likely to have a degree or a higher qualification compared to the average for the population, and at the same time, they are least likely to be unemployed.

While 92% of Sikhs are owner occupiers, community members donate over £1.2 million a day to charities, equivalent to more than 6.5 times the average annual charitable donation per person. Some other interesting fact findings thrown up by the survey -on issues of Sikh identity, discrimination, education, employment, and political activism -include the fact that 92% of those surveyed thought there should be an independent public inquiry to establish the full facts about the UK government’s involvement in the army attack on Darbar Sahib in 1984,