For example the most recent wave of the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing (ELSA) contains just over 500 ethnic minority older people (total N at Wave 9 = 8,736), and only approximately 160 of these were aged over 65. in the UK, Understanding Society, is lacking in statistical power to examine ethnic inequalities in later life. The most israel rcs data recent data release (Wave 10) contains only 561 non-White ethnic minority people aged 65 and over (out of 6,467 people aged 65 or over).
These sample sizes do not allow for subgroup analysis to ascertain how older people in different ethnic minority groups are faring; for example there are only 36 Bangladeshi older people.
This minimal representation in nationally funded datasets really equates to exclusion from research and is a form of institutional racism leading to a socially unjust dearth of knowledge about the health and socioeconomic circumstances of an already disadvantaged part of the population.