Category: Data collection
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MBM letter to EHRC Scotland, April 2023
We were invited by the Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) to participate in an online roundtable to discuss the preliminary findings in Scotland related to the protected characteristics...
25th April 2023
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Police Scotland: Leaving the Stonewall Workplace Equality Index
On 20 February 2023 the Daily Mail reported that Police Scotland had withdrawn from the Stonewall Workplace Equality Index (WEI) scheme. The scheme is described by Stonewall as ‘the...
23rd March 2023
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Scotland 2022 census: Office for Statistics Regulation assessment
Earlier this year, the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) carried out an assessment of Scotland’s 2022 census, which will allow the regulator to recommend whether the Census outputs should...
17th August 2022
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Gender recognition reform and data collection
At the next evidence session on the Gender Recognition Reform (Scotland) Bill (7 June) the Scottish Parliament’s Equalities, Human Rights and Civil Justice (EHRCJ) Committee will take evidence from...
5th June 2022
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Two recent court rulings in Scotland: bad news for Scotland’s census but good news for public data collection
This blog considers two recent rulings by the Inner House of the Court of Session. These are the ruling in the Appeal case brought by For Women Scotland (FWS), which...
27th February 2022
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MBM response to the Fair Play for Women census appeal outcome
We share the surprise and disappointment at this decision expressed by FPFW. This was an important case to pursue. The ruling means that the category of ‘sex’ will now...
24th February 2022
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Q&A on the sex question guidance for the 2022 Scottish census
When is the next census in Scotland? The next census will take place in March 2022. In the rest of the UK, the census took place in March this...
5th December 2021
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MBM correspondence with the Scottish Government re. guidance for the sex question in the 2022 census (Oct/Nov 2021)
Our correspondence with the Scottish Government regarding the proposed guidance for the sex question in the 2022 census. MBM letter to the Cabinet Secretary for the Constitution, External Affairs...
5th December 2021
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Back from the brink: how the Scottish Government was forced to concede it had conflated sex and gender identity in the Census (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill
In 2018 the Scottish Government brought forward legislation to add new voluntary questions on gender identity and sexual orientation to the next Scottish census. The Census (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill...
5th December 2021
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Did MSPs approve the guidance for the sex question in Scotland’s census?
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...
30th November 2021