Figure 1: Census and HESA data compared

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The question “Is the gender you identify with the same as your sex registered at birth?” appears to have confused some respondents, leading to false positives, particularly for people who are not fluent in English or lack basic educational qualifications.’

We acknowledge that the question on gender identity used by both the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and HESA is flawed. The question ‘Is the gender you identify with the same as your sex registered at birth?’ appears to have chile email list confused some respondents, leading to false positives, particularly for people who are not fluent in English or lack basic educational qualifications (Biggs, 2023). Given that the HESA sample is more highly educated than the general population, the HESA estimate of the trans population is likely to be more accurate than the census figures.







Note: A red bar is not shown where trans data are not available in our datasets.

Younger people and more highly educated people are relatively likely to be LGBT+. We have taken this into account in our analyses (Armstrong & Sullivan, 2024).