Sexual orientation in the UK by region, sex, age, legal partnership status, and ethnic group. These are official statistics in development.

Sexual identity estimates by occupation 2014. This is presented at a UK level, and broken down by England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland.

These datasets provide Census 2021 estimates that classify usual residents aged 16 years and over in England and Wales by sexual orientation by sex, sexual orientation by age and sexual orientation by sex and age.

LGB+

An abbreviation used to refer to people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, and other minority sexual orientations (for example, asexual).

_Sexual orientation _

Sexual orientation is an umbrella term covering sexual identity, attraction, and behaviour. For an individual respondent, these may not be the same. For example, someone in an opposite-sex relationship may also experience same-sex attraction, and vice versa. This means the statistics should be interpreted purely as showing how people responded to the question, rather than being about whom they are attracted to or their actual relationships.

We have not provided glossary entries for individual sexual orientation categories. This is because individual respondents may have differing perspectives on the exact meaning.

The question on sexual orientation was new for Census 2021. It was voluntary and was only asked of people aged 16 years and over.

In total, 44.9 million people answered the sexual orientation question (92.5% of the population aged 16 years and over).

Usual resident

A usual resident is anyone who on Census Day, 21 March 2021, was in the UK and had stayed or intended to stay in the UK for a period of 12 months or more or had a permanent UK address.

Notes

• To ensure that individuals cannot be identified in the data, population counts have been rounded to the nearest five and counts under 10 have been suppressed.

• Percentages have been calculated using rounded data.

This research project examined the experiences of Irish lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered (LGBT) people living in London. There is a long history of Irish migration to the UK, particularly London. This has coincided historically with many Irish LGBT people feeling compelled to emigrate in search of a more supportive social climate. The appeal of global cities to LGBT people has long been acknowledged. Metropolitan centres are associated with tolerance of sexual diversity and established queer communities. This study will explore Irish queer migrants' reasons for moving to London and experiences there. The research questions will focus on notions of home, identity, belonging, familial relationships and subjectivity. By exploring the relationship between sexuality, ethnicity and diaspora, the study intended to uncover the ways in which contemporary sexual citizenship, migration and queer imaginaries of the metropolis are mutually implicated in complex ways. A qualitative dataset is produced containing interviews with 38 Irish LGBT participants who have been living in London for at least five years. In addition to generating new theoretical work on sexuality and migration, the research findings will be used to inform policy and debate regarding processes of social exclusion.

This dataset includes 8 analysis documents from a PhD project on the experiences of LGBQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual and queer) people in leadership roles across the UK and Italy. This qualitative research project has explored the leadership experiences of people who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual and queer (LGBQ) in the UK (primary study) and Italy (secondary study), and what these experiences reveal about social norms, marginalization, and power relations in leadership and in workplaces. As a multi-sited study, this research provided a cross-cultural comparison between the UK, where there is greater support/protection for LGBQ people in the workplace, and Italy, where workplace protections are limited.

The Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey (NILT) series began in 1998, and was the successor to the previous Northern Ireland Social Attitudes series, which was discontinued in 1996.
The main aims of the NILT series are:

• to monitor public attitudes towards social policy and political issues in Northern Ireland;
• to provide a time series on attitudes to key social policy areas;
• to facilitate academic social policy analysis;
• to provide a freely available resource on public attitudes for the wider community of users in Northern Ireland.

NILT originally had a companion series which also began in 1998, the Young Life and Times Survey (YLT), although the YLT methodology changed in 2003 and it is conducted separately each year. The Kids' Life and Times (KLT) survey of P7 children (10-11 year olds) is also part of the same suite of surveys as YLT and NILT.

NILT also forms part of the International Social Survey Programme (ISSP), although it does not do so every year. Unfortunately, NILT did not run in 2011 due to funding issues, though YLT ran as normal that year; NILT resumed in 2012 (SN 7408). In addition, several open access teaching datasets were created by ARK (Access Research Knowledge) from various years of NILT, covering different topics such as Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) issues, politics and community relations, attitudes to ageing and ageism, and dementia.

Further information about the series may be found on the ARK http://www.ark.ac.uk/nilt/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">NILT webpage.

The Northern Ireland Life and Times Survey, 2008: Attitudes to Older People, Ageing and Ageism Teaching Dataset is part of a suite of teaching and learning resources created by ARK, and complements a Higher Education Academy (HEA) strategic project focusing on teaching research methods. The project "Northern Ireland by Numbers" involved the creation of new teaching datasets from two major surveys focusing on Northern Ireland, with accompanying 'student-friendly' documentation. Specifically, two teaching datasets were created using the 2012 NILT survey (SN 7546 and SN 7547) as well as a time-series teaching dataset drawing on the 2003-2012 Young Life and Times (YLT) surveys (SN 7548). Likewise, ARK created five other datasets to be used on courses teaching quantitative statistical analysis in the social sciences. Further information about these may be found on the ARK Teaching Resources webpage.

This teaching dataset focuses on attitudes relating to older people, ageing and ageism, using data from the 2008 NILT adapted for the purposes of this project. Some variables have been constructed and/or simplified for this dataset and notes are provided in the accompanying documentation. While the teaching dataset is a valid representation of the data, it is intended for teaching purposes only; it is advisable to use the original NILT 2008 study (SN 6296) for research.