Dataset(s): Sexual orientation (detailed), comparison of corrected and original data, England and Wales: Census 2021

Dataset provided to help users interpret the correction made to the detailed Census 2021 sexual orientation estimates. More information in quality notice.

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Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity team

Dyddiad y datganiad:
1 November 2023

Cyhoeddiad nesaf:
To be announced

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Provides files to download data as it existed for this dataset on previous dates.

Statistics are most often revised for 1 of 2 reasons:

  1. For certain statistics initial estimates are released with the expectation that these may be revised and updated as further data becomes available.
  2. Revisions may also be made when methods or systems are changed.

These types of planned revisions should not be confused with errors in released statistics, which are genuine mistakes. Such mistakes occur rarely and, when they do happen, corrections are made in a timely manner, announced and clearly explained to users in line with the Code of Practice for Official Statistics (Principle 2, Practice 7).

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Correction See correction
The updated version, uploaded at 15:20 on 1 November 2023, opened on the incorrect tab. No data has changed. This has now been fixed. The heading in column E of data sheet 2 (Sexual orientation percentage data, England and Wales) had incorrectly been labelled as "Percentage (corrected)". We have amended it to "Percentage (original)". We have also changed various labels in the file to read "corrected" rather than "revised", for consistency across the file. We apologise for any inconvenience.
1 November 2023 15:45
xlsx (74.2 kB)
Correction See correction
The updated version, uploaded at 14:15 on 1 November 2023, was a duplicate of the original version uploaded in error. The heading in column E of data sheet 2 (Sexual orientation percentage data, England and Wales) had incorrectly been labelled as "Percentage (corrected)". We have amended it to "Percentage (original)". We have also changed various labels in the file to read "corrected" rather than "revised", for consistency across the file. We apologise for any inconvenience.
1 November 2023 15:20
xlsx (74.2 kB)
Correction See correction
The heading in column E of data sheet 2 (Sexual orientation percentage data, England and Wales) had incorrectly been labelled as "Percentage (corrected)". We have amended it to "Percentage (original)". We have also changed various labels in the file to read "corrected" rather than "revised", for consistency across the file. We apologise for any inconvenience.
1 November 2023 14:15