{"id":2787,"date":"2016-10-11T08:23:44","date_gmt":"2016-10-11T08:23:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=2787"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:49:36","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:49:36","slug":"sexual-identity-data-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2016\/10\/11\/sexual-identity-data-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Sexual Identity Data UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">The Office for National Statistics is now collecting sexual identity estimates\u00a0based on social survey data from the Annual Population Survey (APS) and has published it as a <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ons.gov.uk\/releases\/sexualidentityuk2015\"><span style=\"color: #0563c1;font-family: Calibri\">separate publication<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\"> for the first time.<br \/>\nThe questions collect information on self-perceived sexual identity from the household population aged 16 and over in the UK.\u00a0 This is defined as separate from sexual attraction. The data has tables by age, ethnicity, region, socio-economic status and marital status.\u00a0 Information on the methodology used is provided.<br \/>\nIn 2015, the Annual Population Survey found 1.7% of adults in the UK identified themselves as lesbian, gay or bisexual (LGB).\u00a0 Young people and those living in London were more likely to identify as LGB.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Office for National Statistics is now collecting sexual identity estimates\u00a0based on social survey data from the Annual Population Survey (APS) and has published it as a separate publication for the first time. The questions collect information on self-perceived sexual identity from the household population aged 16 and over in the UK.\u00a0 This is defined [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[365,364,320,363,243],"class_list":["post-2787","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sociology","tag-bisexual","tag-gay","tag-lesbian","tag-sexual-identity","tag-sociology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2787"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2788,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2787\/revisions\/2788"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2787"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2787"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2787"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}