‘I’ for identity, majority Cornish among the young

‘I’ for identity, majority Cornish among the young

Since just 2006 school children in Cornwall have rightly been allowed to record themselves (or via their parents for the younger ones) as ‘ethnically’ Cornish or at least identifying as Cornish, on the annual Schools Census (PLASC).
Since then the number identifying as Cornish has risen from less than 24% to 51.1%.

2006: 23.7 percent

2007: 27.7 percent

2008: 30.3 percent

2009: 33.9 percent

2010: 37.2 percent

2011: 40.9 percent

2012: 43.2 percent

2013: 46 percent

2014: 48 percent

2015: 49.5 percent

2016: 50.6 percent – back in the majority

2017: 51.1 percent

A 115% increase in 11 years!

Link to our previous post on this matter: http://www.cornwall24.net/2013/12/i-for-identity-revisited/