Sex and the Census MBM letter to EHRC Scotland Keep reading 25/04/202308/05/2023 Scotland 2022 census: Office for Statistics Regulation assessment Keep reading 17/08/202207/03/2023 Two recent court rulings in Scotland: bad news for Scotland’s census but good news for public data collection Keep reading 27/02/202207/03/2023 MBM response to the Fair Play for Women census appeal outcome Keep reading 24/02/202224/02/2022 Q&A on the sex question guidance for the 2022 Scottish census Keep reading 05/12/202112/01/2022 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 Keep reading 05/12/202105/12/2021 Did MSPs approve the guidance for the sex question in Scotland’s census? Keep reading 30/11/202122/01/2022 MBM statement on Scotland’s Census 2022 sex question guidance Keep reading 31/08/202116/09/2021 A tale of two letters revisited Keep reading 07/04/202106/03/2023 MBM review of the ONS paper ‘Methodology for decision making on the 2021 Census sex question concept and associated guidance’ Keep reading 08/03/202107/03/2023 Time to fight for the principle of collecting data on biological sex Keep reading 25/02/202121/06/2021 Was the sex question in the 2011 census ‘self-identified’? Keep reading 19/02/202105/10/2021 ONS guidance for the sex question in the 2021 census in England and Wales Keep reading 12/02/202121/06/2021 Discontinuity in the UK censuses on the definition of sex Keep reading 25/01/202107/03/2023 International evidence and the risks of reframing the sex question in the census Keep reading 30/11/202004/10/2021 Policy divergence in the UK census Keep reading 13/11/202021/06/2021 WPUK webinar slides ‘Sex and the census’ Keep reading 18/10/202021/06/2021 Back under the radar? A review of plans for the census Keep reading 24/09/202021/06/2021 Domino effects: the implications of the framing the sex question in the 2021 census Keep reading 20/06/202030/05/2021 A negligible effect? The untested assumptions behind plans for the 2021 census Keep reading 04/06/202006/03/2023 A tale of two letters: whose views count? Keep reading 24/02/202021/06/2021 MBM view on proposals for the sex question in the UK 2021 census Keep reading 07/02/202021/06/2021 Losing consensus on the census Keep reading 13/01/202004/10/2021 Draft guidance under consideration for 2021 census sex question: summary of proposals Keep reading 10/12/201904/10/2021 Last chance saloon: preserving the integrity of the sex question in the 2021 census Keep reading 01/11/201904/10/2021 Scotland’s Census 2021 Impact Assessments Stakeholder Survey: MBM response Keep reading 29/09/201912/01/2022 Losing count: consultation on the sex question in the 2021 census Keep reading 24/09/201904/10/2021 MBM statement on the 2021 census Keep reading 09/09/201904/10/2021 Proposals to test the census sex question guidance miss the point Keep reading 19/08/201904/10/2021 Losing Sight of Women’s Rights (Scottish Affairs vol. 28 3) Keep reading 29/07/201907/03/2023 Scotland’s 2021 Census: consultation and question development Keep reading 27/06/201904/10/2021 Census (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill: MBM Stage 3 Briefing Keep reading 06/06/201907/03/2023 Q&A on the Census (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill Keep reading 30/04/201904/10/2021 File under random: non-binary sex data and imputation in the 2021 census Keep reading 18/03/201904/10/2021 Stage One debate on the Census (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill: MBM briefing Keep reading 25/02/201907/03/2023 Finding the middle ground: sex and gender identity in the 2021 census Keep reading 12/02/201907/03/2023 Stage 1 report on Census (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill: MBM response Keep reading 07/02/201907/03/2023 Where next for the Census (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill? Keep reading 07/01/201907/03/2023 Sex and the Census: A review of the sex question since 2001 Keep reading 16/12/201808/05/2023 Census (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill: MBM evidence to the CTEEA Committee Keep reading 04/12/201807/03/2023 Correspondence on the census Letter from Sir Bernard Silverman to Sir Ian Diamond (30 October 2020) Letter to Sir Bernard Silverman, Chair of the Methodological Assurance Review Panel for the 2021 Census (22 October 2020) Letter to the Culture, Tourism, Europe and External Affairs Committee: EU legislation on the census (7 October 2019) Letter to the Culture, Tourism, Europe and External Affairs Committee: MBM position on data collection (11 September 2019) Letter to the CTEEA Committee: key issues on the census sex question (11 September 2019) Tweet Share Print
Two recent court rulings in Scotland: bad news for Scotland’s census but good news for public data collection Keep reading 27/02/202207/03/2023
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 Keep reading 05/12/202105/12/2021
Did MSPs approve the guidance for the sex question in Scotland’s census? Keep reading 30/11/202122/01/2022
MBM review of the ONS paper ‘Methodology for decision making on the 2021 Census sex question concept and associated guidance’ Keep reading 08/03/202107/03/2023
Time to fight for the principle of collecting data on biological sex Keep reading 25/02/202121/06/2021
ONS guidance for the sex question in the 2021 census in England and Wales Keep reading 12/02/202121/06/2021
International evidence and the risks of reframing the sex question in the census Keep reading 30/11/202004/10/2021
Domino effects: the implications of the framing the sex question in the 2021 census Keep reading 20/06/202030/05/2021
A negligible effect? The untested assumptions behind plans for the 2021 census Keep reading 04/06/202006/03/2023
Draft guidance under consideration for 2021 census sex question: summary of proposals Keep reading 10/12/201904/10/2021
Last chance saloon: preserving the integrity of the sex question in the 2021 census Keep reading 01/11/201904/10/2021
Scotland’s Census 2021 Impact Assessments Stakeholder Survey: MBM response Keep reading 29/09/201912/01/2022
File under random: non-binary sex data and imputation in the 2021 census Keep reading 18/03/201904/10/2021
Stage One debate on the Census (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill: MBM briefing Keep reading 25/02/201907/03/2023
Finding the middle ground: sex and gender identity in the 2021 census Keep reading 12/02/201907/03/2023
Census (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill: MBM evidence to the CTEEA Committee Keep reading 04/12/201807/03/2023
Letter to Sir Bernard Silverman, Chair of the Methodological Assurance Review Panel for the 2021 Census (22 October 2020)
Letter to the Culture, Tourism, Europe and External Affairs Committee: EU legislation on the census (7 October 2019)
Letter to the Culture, Tourism, Europe and External Affairs Committee: MBM position on data collection (11 September 2019)
