Online Census Pilot Survey 2024

New questions on the Irish Census Pilot Survey include:

• where a household's car(s) is/are parked overnight [to gather insights on potential placement of electric chargers];
• whether your gender is the same or different to the sex recorded at birth;
• your sexual orientation;
• how you would self-report your mental health.

They need to be careful they don't cause the same confusion as the UK National Stats did …..

The STANDARD / UK

Gender identity data from the latest census has been downgraded amid concern people may not have understood the gender question properly …..

The Office for National Statistics (ONS) said it had requested that the estimates from the 2021 survey are reclassified from being official statistics to “official statistics in development”. The 2021 census was the first time the voluntary question on gender identity was included in the wide-ranging survey, which takes place every 10 years.

Following the publication of the census data, concerns were raised that the question might have been confusing for people, especially those whose first language was not English.

*The evidence indicates that people found the question confusing and therefore gave a response that did not reflect their gender identity, if they even had one?

“… the ONS acknowledged there might have been some confusion among people answering the gender identity question.

. . . . and on it goes

Not sure why they brought in the whole Gender thing, as it's not provable or quantifiable like your sex. People get confused at Gender or sex, sex or gender or both, gender at birth, sex at birth, recorded sex, gender identity . . . and there you have the problem, as the Census Stats get muddled & distorted.

The talk in the UK is that next time they'll revert to sex recorded at birth (which cannot be changed), while leaving out the confusing question about different genders.