Blogs and briefings Scotland 2022 census: Office for Statistics Regulation assessment Keep reading August 17, 2022 Two recent court rulings in Scotland: bad news for Scotland’s census but good news for public data collection Keep reading February 27, 2022March 14, 2022 MBM response to the Fair Play for Women census appeal outcome Keep reading February 24, 2022February 24, 2022 Q&A on the sex question guidance for the 2022 Scottish census Keep reading December 5, 2021January 12, 2022 MBM correspondence with the Scottish Government re. guidance for the sex question in the 2022 census (Oct/Nov 2021) Keep reading 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 Keep reading December 5, 2021December 5, 2021 Did MSPs approve the guidance for the sex question in Scotland’s census? Keep reading November 30, 2021January 22, 2022 MBM statement on Scotland’s Census 2022 sex question guidance Keep reading August 31, 2021September 16, 2021 A tale of two letters revisited Keep reading 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’ Keep reading March 8, 2021January 15, 2022 Time to fight for the principle of collecting data on biological sex Keep reading February 25, 2021June 21, 2021 Was the sex question in the 2011 census ‘self-identified’? Keep reading February 19, 2021October 5, 2021 ONS guidance for the sex question in the 2021 census in England and Wales Keep reading February 12, 2021June 21, 2021 Discontinuity in the UK censuses on the definition of sex Keep reading January 25, 2021June 25, 2021 International evidence and the risks of reframing the sex question in the census Keep reading November 30, 2020October 4, 2021 Policy divergence in the UK census Keep reading November 13, 2020June 21, 2021 WPUK webinar slides ‘Sex and the census’ Keep reading October 18, 2020June 21, 2021 Back under the radar? A review of plans for the census Keep reading September 24, 2020June 21, 2021 Domino effects: the implications of the framing the sex question in the 2021 census Keep reading June 20, 2020May 30, 2021 A negligible effect? The untested assumptions behind plans for the 2021 census Keep reading June 4, 2020June 21, 2021 A tale of two letters: whose views count? Keep reading February 24, 2020June 21, 2021 MBM view on proposals for the sex question in the UK 2021 census Keep reading February 7, 2020June 21, 2021 Losing consensus on the census Keep reading January 13, 2020October 4, 2021 Draft guidance under consideration for 2021 census sex question: summary of proposals Keep reading December 10, 2019October 4, 2021 Last chance saloon: preserving the integrity of the sex question in the 2021 census Keep reading November 1, 2019October 4, 2021 Scotland’s Census 2021 Impact Assessments Stakeholder Survey: MBM response Keep reading September 29, 2019January 12, 2022 Losing count: consultation on the sex question in the 2021 census Keep reading September 24, 2019October 4, 2021 MBM statement on the 2021 census Keep reading September 9, 2019October 4, 2021 Proposals to test the census sex question guidance miss the point Keep reading August 19, 2019October 4, 2021 Scotland’s 2021 Census: consultation and question development Keep reading June 27, 2019October 4, 2021 Census (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill: MBM Stage 3 Briefing Keep reading June 6, 2019January 15, 2022 Q&A on the Census (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill Keep reading April 30, 2019October 4, 2021 File under random: non-binary sex data and imputation in the 2021 census Keep reading March 18, 2019October 4, 2021 Stage One debate on the Census (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill: MBM briefing Keep reading February 25, 2019October 4, 2021 Finding the middle ground: sex and gender identity in the 2021 census Keep reading February 12, 2019October 4, 2021 Stage 1 report on Census (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill: MBM response Keep reading February 7, 2019October 4, 2021 Where next for the Census (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill? Keep reading January 7, 2019August 25, 2021 Sex and the Census: A review of the sex question since 2001 Keep reading December 16, 2018January 20, 2022 Census (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill: MBM evidence to the CTEEA Committee Keep reading 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)
Two recent court rulings in Scotland: bad news for Scotland’s census but good news for public data collection Keep reading February 27, 2022March 14, 2022
MBM response to the Fair Play for Women census appeal outcome Keep reading February 24, 2022February 24, 2022
Q&A on the sex question guidance for the 2022 Scottish census Keep reading December 5, 2021January 12, 2022
MBM correspondence with the Scottish Government re. guidance for the sex question in the 2022 census (Oct/Nov 2021) Keep reading 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 Keep reading December 5, 2021December 5, 2021
Did MSPs approve the guidance for the sex question in Scotland’s census? Keep reading November 30, 2021January 22, 2022
MBM statement on Scotland’s Census 2022 sex question guidance Keep reading August 31, 2021September 16, 2021
MBM review of the ONS paper ‘Methodology for decision making on the 2021 Census sex question concept and associated guidance’ Keep reading March 8, 2021January 15, 2022
Time to fight for the principle of collecting data on biological sex Keep reading February 25, 2021June 21, 2021
Was the sex question in the 2011 census ‘self-identified’? Keep reading February 19, 2021October 5, 2021
ONS guidance for the sex question in the 2021 census in England and Wales Keep reading February 12, 2021June 21, 2021
International evidence and the risks of reframing the sex question in the census Keep reading November 30, 2020October 4, 2021
Domino effects: the implications of the framing the sex question in the 2021 census Keep reading June 20, 2020May 30, 2021
A negligible effect? The untested assumptions behind plans for the 2021 census Keep reading June 4, 2020June 21, 2021
MBM view on proposals for the sex question in the UK 2021 census Keep reading February 7, 2020June 21, 2021
Draft guidance under consideration for 2021 census sex question: summary of proposals Keep reading December 10, 2019October 4, 2021
Last chance saloon: preserving the integrity of the sex question in the 2021 census Keep reading November 1, 2019October 4, 2021
Scotland’s Census 2021 Impact Assessments Stakeholder Survey: MBM response Keep reading September 29, 2019January 12, 2022
Losing count: consultation on the sex question in the 2021 census Keep reading September 24, 2019October 4, 2021
Proposals to test the census sex question guidance miss the point Keep reading August 19, 2019October 4, 2021
Scotland’s 2021 Census: consultation and question development Keep reading June 27, 2019October 4, 2021
File under random: non-binary sex data and imputation in the 2021 census Keep reading March 18, 2019October 4, 2021
Stage One debate on the Census (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill: MBM briefing Keep reading February 25, 2019October 4, 2021
Finding the middle ground: sex and gender identity in the 2021 census Keep reading February 12, 2019October 4, 2021
Stage 1 report on Census (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill: MBM response Keep reading February 7, 2019October 4, 2021
Sex and the Census: A review of the sex question since 2001 Keep reading December 16, 2018January 20, 2022
Census (Amendment) (Scotland) Bill: MBM evidence to the CTEEA Committee Keep reading December 4, 2018October 2, 2021
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)
