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FOI - Vaisakhi on the Square [Nov 2023]

Key information

Request reference number: MGLA241123-0927

Date of response:

Summary of request

Your request

Please give a rough percentage of the following:

  1. Ethnicity of people that attended the the Vaisakhi on the Square event this year.
  2. Estimate of males, females and children that attended the event
  3. The number of people expected next year?

Our response

There was a grand total number of 13,621 visitors throughout the day. 

The GLA does hold information regarding the ethnicity of all people that attended the event. 

Please note that the table below is taken from our visitor survey, it is based on a sample. The data is based on the people who attended the event and who completed the survey.

English / Welsh / Scottish / Northern Irish / British

17%

Irish

7%

Gypsy or Irish Traveller

No responses recorded

Any other White background

7%

White and Black Caribbean

Fewer than 5%

White and Black African

No responses recorded

White and Asian

Fewer than 5%

Any other Mixed / Multiple ethnic background

No responses recorded

Indian

46%

Pakistani

No responses recorded

Bangladeshi

No responses recorded

Chinese

No responses recorded

Any other Asian background

10%

African

Fewer than 5%

Caribbean

No responses recorded

Any other Black / African / Caribbean background

No responses recorded

Arab

No responses recorded

Any other ethnic group

6%

Prefer not to say

Fewer than 5%

The GLA does hold information regarding the number of male or female people that attended the event.  

Of the people who attended the event and who completed the survey we hold the following information:

  • 64% male
  • 36% female
  • We do not hold data regarding children

We are expecting c.15,000 people at the event next year.

If you have any further questions relating to this matter, please contact us, quoting reference MGLA0311023-9450.

 

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