Census data

Around the 2011 census, I ran a series of posts that analysed how “impudation” and other strategies used to generate census statistics could misreport trans and poly households.

• Sex and the Census

  Discussion of the (inaccurate) reports that the Office of National Statistics might make sex optional in the 2021 census.

  4 min read   ·   09 October 2017

  

• Poly relationships statistics from the 2011 Census

  The 2011 census revealed 39,200 potentially polyamourous households in England and Wales.

  3 min read   ·   24 August 2012

• More on Poly and Trans erasure in the Census

  Discussion of a Freedom of Information response that revealed the Office for National Statistics do not know how often gender and marital status was "corrected" in the 2011 census.

  2 min read   ·   15 June 2011

• Free sex change and relationship breakup, thanks to the census

  The Office for National Statistics adjusts census data to fit traditional relationship models, potentially changing the sex of individuals in same-sex marriages or simplifying polyamorous households into couples. This could misrepresent valid relationships.

  2 min read   ·   13 May 2011

• Poly and trans folk and the Census

  3 min read   ·   28 March 2011