November 2021 – MurrayBlackburnMackenzie

Did MSPs approve the guidance for the sex question in Scotland’s census?

Posted by Kath Murrayon November 30, 2021January 22, 2022in Census, Data collection1 Comment

In recent correspondence, the Scottish Government implied that previous parliamentary discussion on the Census (Amendment) (Scotland) Act has lent weight to its decision to issue guidance for the sex question in Scotland’s 2022 census which advised respondents they may answer…

Diminishing the value of public sector data: How the Chief Statistician’s guidance lost sight of biological sex

Posted by Kath Murrayon November 4, 2021February 25, 2022in Data collection, Scottish Government guidance on data collection2 Comments

Diminishing the value of public sector data: How the Chief Statistician’s guidance lost sight of biological sex UPDATE: We received a letter from the Commission yesterday evening which confirmed that the advice provided to the Scottish Government "could have been…