Sex and the Census

Blogs and briefings

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Scotland 2022 census: Office for Statistics Regulation assessment

August 17, 2022

Two recent court rulings in Scotland: bad news for Scotland’s census but good news for public data collection

February 27, 2022March 14, 2022

MBM response to the Fair Play for Women census appeal outcome

February 24, 2022February 24, 2022

Q&A on the sex question guidance for the 2022 Scottish census

December 5, 2021January 12, 2022

MBM correspondence with the Scottish Government re. guidance for the sex question in the 2022 census (Oct/Nov 2021)

December 5, 2021January 12, 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

December 5, 2021December 5, 2021

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

November 30, 2021January 22, 2022

MBM statement on Scotland’s Census 2022 sex question guidance

August 31, 2021September 16, 2021

A tale of two letters revisited

April 7, 2021January 15, 2022

MBM review of the ONS paper ‘Methodology for decision making on the 2021 Census sex question concept and associated guidance’

March 8, 2021January 15, 2022

Time to fight for the principle of collecting data on biological sex

February 25, 2021June 21, 2021

Was the sex question in the 2011 census ‘self-identified’?

February 19, 2021October 5, 2021

ONS guidance for the sex question in the 2021 census in England and Wales

February 12, 2021June 21, 2021

Discontinuity in the UK censuses on the definition of sex

January 25, 2021June 25, 2021

International evidence and the risks of reframing the sex question in the census

November 30, 2020October 4, 2021

Policy divergence in the UK census

November 13, 2020June 21, 2021

WPUK webinar slides ‘Sex and the census’

October 18, 2020June 21, 2021

Back under the radar? A review of plans for the census

September 24, 2020June 21, 2021

Domino effects: the implications of the framing the sex question in the 2021 census

June 20, 2020May 30, 2021

A negligible effect? The untested assumptions behind plans for the 2021 census

June 4, 2020June 21, 2021

A tale of two letters: whose views count?

February 24, 2020June 21, 2021

MBM view on proposals for the sex question in the UK 2021 census

February 7, 2020June 21, 2021

Losing consensus on the census

January 13, 2020October 4, 2021

Draft guidance under consideration for 2021 census sex question: summary of proposals

December 10, 2019October 4, 2021

Last chance saloon: preserving the integrity of the sex question in the 2021 census

November 1, 2019October 4, 2021

Scotland’s Census 2021 Impact Assessments Stakeholder Survey: MBM response

September 29, 2019January 12, 2022

Losing count: consultation on the sex question in the 2021 census

September 24, 2019October 4, 2021

MBM statement on the 2021 census

September 9, 2019October 4, 2021

Proposals to test the census sex question guidance miss the point

August 19, 2019October 4, 2021

Scotland’s 2021 Census: consultation and question development

June 27, 2019October 4, 2021

Census (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill: MBM Stage 3 Briefing

June 6, 2019January 15, 2022

Q&A on the Census (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill

April 30, 2019October 4, 2021

File under random: non-binary sex data and imputation in the 2021 census

March 18, 2019October 4, 2021

Stage One debate on the Census (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill: MBM briefing

February 25, 2019October 4, 2021

Finding the middle ground: sex and gender identity in the 2021 census

February 12, 2019October 4, 2021

Stage 1 report on Census (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill: MBM response

February 7, 2019October 4, 2021

Where next for the Census (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill?

January 7, 2019August 25, 2021

Sex and the Census: A review of the sex question since 2001

December 16, 2018January 20, 2022

Census (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill: MBM evidence to the CTEEA Committee

December 4, 2018October 2, 2021

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)