Data Collection

  • Census Protest at National Records Scotland

    Women gathered to protest Census Day 2022 by tying Suffragette coloured ribbons and messages to the railings outside the National Records of Scotland building in Edinburgh. This year’s census...

  • Census Day

    Thank you to everyone who has already taken part in our census action to write “Believer in Biology” on the Scottish Census. Today is census day and it is not too...

  • Census action – “believer in biology”

    The guidance for the question “What is your sex?” in this month’s Scottish census states that the answer you give can be different from the sex given on your birth certificate, and that...

  • The Status of Women In Scotland – Census and Data Collection on Sex

    UN Women invited submissions to the Commission on the Status of Women with information relating to alleged violations of human rights that affect the status of women in any...

  • Draft guidance on collecting sex and gender data – feedback

    The Scottish Government’s Sex and Gender in Data Working Group asked for feedback on their Draft Guidance. Our submission is as follows, and can also be downloaded as a...

  • Count Women So Women Count

    When will you start caring about data? About the importance of sex-disaggregated data? When will you start caring about the way in which we are already replacing data on...

  • Census Email Campaign

    *** This is an urgent action for TODAY! We hope everyone, male and female, will join in – we’re aiming for a high number of people all sending emails....

  • Police Scotland

    Following Joan McAlpine’s Paliamentary Question on 13th March which discovered that Police Scotland and the Scottish Courts and Tribunal Service both record incidents on the basis of self-declared gender...

  • Joan’s Thread

    Saving this here because we think it’s so good!Joan McAlpine’s thread on Twitter: Thread: Re Sex and the Census. For many individuals identity is very personal and important and...

  • Sex Matters

    Ahead of the census debate we are concerned that the definitions of male and female in Scots Law and practice need to be robust and that appropriate protections can...