Category: Census • Page 2
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MBM statement on Scotland’s Census 2022 sex question guidance
The National Records of Scotland has announced that the guidance to be published alongside the 2022 census questionnaire to help respondents complete the sex question will advise people that...
31st August 2021
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Letter to the Culture, Tourism, Europe and External Affairs Committee: MBM position on data collection (11 September 2019)
Letter to the Culture, Tourism, Europe and External Affairs Committee (CTEEA) explaining our position on data collection, in response to a letter co-signed by a number of LGBT organisations...
30th May 2021
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Letter to the CTEEA Committee: key issues on the census sex question (11 September 2019)
Letter to CTEEA Committee, setting out key issues and concerns about the sex question in Scotland's census.
30th May 2021
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Letter to the Culture, Tourism, Europe and External Affairs Committee: EU legislation on the census (7 October 2019)
Our letter to the Culture, Tourism, Europe and External Affairs Committee: EU legislation on EU legistlation and the census. 7 October 2019 Dear Committee Members, We would like to...
30th May 2021
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A tale of two letters revisited
The Herald on Sunday this week reported that “more than 300 scientists are calling for the Scottish Government … to resist attempts from campaigners to change the guidance or...
7th April 2021
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MBM review of the ONS paper ‘Methodology for decision making on the 2021 Census sex question concept and associated guidance’
MBM review of the ONS paper ‘Methodology for decision making on the 2021 Census sex question concept and associated guidance’ Less than six weeks before the date of the...
8th March 2021
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Time to fight for the principle of collecting data on biological sex
Today, the Office for Statistics Regulation (OSR) has published draft guidance entitled ‘Collecting and reporting data about sex in official statistics’. The guidance sets out what producers should consider...
25th February 2021
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Was the sex question in the 2011 census ‘self-identified’?
1. Introduction Less than six weeks before the date of the 2021 census in England and Wales, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) published the guidance which will accompany...
19th February 2021
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ONS guidance for the sex question in the 2021 census in England and Wales
The next census in England and Wales will take place on 21 March 2021. For the past few years, both expert data users and feminist groups have been taking...
12th February 2021
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Discontinuity in the UK censuses on the definition of sex
As reported in the Sunday Times (24 January 2021), the Chief Statistician Sir Ian Diamond has stated that the sex question in the forthcoming census in England and Wales...
25th January 2021