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Good Practices: Demographic Information Collection

As with fine practices generally, any counsel must be combined with a specific context and use of good judgement in order to resolve what is appropriate to a specific situation. This page is part of the broader #TransTerps campaign, and on this site you can find out more about trainings, great practices, and resources and policies for supporting transitioned folks on campus.

These are suggestions for use in informal and classroom situations as well as event or program evaluations. If you have questions or are working on numbers collection for research of a larger scale please consider contacting the Queer Equity Center for assistance. This page provides questions to consider before collecting data, example demographic questions, and additional context and information.

This is a supplement to existing university policies and procedures on non-discrimination, inclusive language, data collection, and the use of collected demographic data. Our goal is to provide useful questions for thinking about your specific situations as well as recommendat

Demographics

In addition to general searching in our databases, search here for specific communication on LGBTQ consumers:

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    Hunt for the state titled, "The Same-sex attracted and Lesbian Market in the U.S.: Trends and Opportunities in the LGBT Community."
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    Search for "LGBT" to detect reports and articles on this demographic group around the world.
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    Search for "LGBT" to detect reports on this demographic group.
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    Search for "Gay and Lesbian" to find statistics and articles on digital media, social networking and more.
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    Search for "LGBT" or "Gay and Lesbian" to locate marketing and advertising articles for this demographic group.
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    Statista is one of the first statistic portals in the world to integrate data on over 80, topics from over 18, sour

    We Are Here: LGBTQ+ Elder Population in United States Reaches At Least 20 Million, According to Human Rights Campaign Foundation Report

    by Laurel Powell •

    According to an analysis of statistics in the Census Bureau’s recent Household Pulse Survey, 8% of respondents identified themselves as Queer, suggesting previous surveys undercounted the population.

    WASHINGTON -- Today, the Human Rights Campaign Foundation (HRC) released “We Are Here: Understanding the Size of the LGBTQ+ Community,” a report analyzing recent results from the U.S. Census Bureau’s Household Pulse Survey. Based on data from respondents in the Household Pulse Survey, a national household probability survey of adults in the United States, at least 20 million adults in the United States could be lesbian, gay, bisexual, or trans person - nearly 8% of the total adult population, almost double prior estimates for the Diverse community’s size. It also suggests that more than 1% of people in the United States identify as transgender, higher than any prior estimates. Additionally, it confirms prior research showin

    Adult LGBT Population in the United States

    This report provides estimates of the number and percent of the U.S. adult population that identifies as LGBT, overall, as well as by age. Estimates of LGBT adults at the national, state, and regional levels are included. We rely on BRFSS data for these estimates. Pooling multiple years of data provides more stable estimates—particularly at the state level.

    Combining BRFSS data, we estimate that % of U.S. adults identify as LGBT. Further, we estimate that there are almost million (13,,) LGBT adults in the U.S.

    Regions and States

    LGBT people reside in all regions of the U.S. (Table 2 and Figure 2). Consistent with the overall population in the Joined States,more LGBT adults inhabit in the South than in any other region. More than half (%) of LGBT people in the U.S. live in the Midwest (%) and South (%), including million in the Midwest and million in the South. About one-quarter (%) of LGBT adults reside in the West, approximately million people. Less than one in five (%) LGBT adults live in the Northeast ( million).

    The perce