One in six households in Scotland is of mixed ethnicity, a study has found.
Researchers found that ethnic diversity is increasing throughout Scottish society, as immigrants have settled in new areas and the mix of ethnic groups has grown.
By 2011, the number of people living in Scotland who identified as being other than "white Scottish" reached 850,000.
The largest minority group was those who described themselves as "white: other British".
Numbers in that category had increased by 10% to 417,000 in the decade to 2011, with about three-quarters born in England.
Other minority groups have seen "considerable increases" in size, according to researchers, including the African, Chinese, Pakistani and Indian populations.
End Quote Dr Andrew Smith ResearcherEthnicity is not a matter of colour, but might be used to describe different aspects of our background and sense of who we are"
The researchers at the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity, co-hosted by the universities of Glasgow and Manchester, analysed recent censuses held in Scotland.
They said the populations of some minority groups have increased "significantly faster" in Scotland than in England, but from a much lower starting point.
The African, Indian and Caribbean populations were examples of groups in this category.
Overall, experts found that diversity had increased in every local authority across Scotland.
In Glasgow and Edinburgh, every council ward saw an increase in diversity, the study found.
'Diversity spread'Dr Andrew Smith, senior lecturer in sociology at the University of Glasgow, said: "What our research in the Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity reveals is a picture of growing diversity within Scotland, and of diversity spread across different areas of the country.
"The presence of the large 'other British' minority reminds us that ethnicity is not a matter of colour, but might be used to describe different aspects of our background and sense of who we are.
"What the analysis also reveals is that Scotland's growing diversity is not producing 'polarised islands of different groups' but a 'mosaic of differently mixed areas."
The Centre on the Dynamics of Ethnicity is funded by the Economic and Social Research Council.
The analysis is produced as part of a series prepared at the universities of Glasgow and Manchester with support from the Joseph Rowntree Foundation.
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