Category: Scottish Government guidance on data collection
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Briefing note: Sullivan Review in Scotland
Introduction The Sullivan Review of Data, Statistics and Research on Sex and Gender, published on 19 March, sets out 59 recommendations for good practice on data collection. The review...
2nd April 2025
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The extra genders
Introduction In October 2024, the Scottish Government’s Chief Statistician published a Coding Framework, providing public bodies with guidance on how to collate any write-in responses to survey questions on...
5th November 2024
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Is Police Scotland recording policy an ‘operational matter’?
Introduction In June 2021 we lodged a petition with the Scottish Parliament Citizen Participation and Public Petitions Committee, calling on the Scottish Parliament ‘to urge the Scottish Government to require...
13th September 2024
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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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Diminishing the value of public sector data: How the Chief Statistician’s guidance lost sight of biological sex
Download a copy of Diminishing the value of public sector data: How the Chief Statistician’s guidance lost sight of biological sex On 22 September 2021 the Scottish Government published...
4th November 2021
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MBM response to the Scottish Government guidance on collecting data on sex, gender identity and trans status
The final Scottish Government guidance on collecting data on sex, gender identity and trans status states: Where it is not necessary and proportionate, a question requiring the disclosure of...
22nd September 2021
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Letter to Scotland’s Chief Statistician on the Working group on sex and gender identity in data (20 January 2020)
20 January 2020 Dear Roger, Thank you for meeting us last week to discuss our views on sex and gender data, and your plans for making recommendations for Ministers....
30th May 2021
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MBM response to the Chief Statistician’s Working Group on sex and gender identity data
In December 2020 the Scottish Government published the Chief Statistician’s draft guidance on the collection of data on sex and gender for public bodies. The draft guidance advises that...
28th May 2021