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Abstract:
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Federal agencies have conveyed the desire to use Federal statistics on sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) to inform policy, noting, in particular, the unique health and discrimination concerns faced by the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) populations in the United States. Although some Federal surveys have collected information describing LGBT populations for well over a decade, some aspects of SOGI have been more routinely collected and extensively studied than others. Further, some Federal agencies that are not currently collecting SOGI information have expressed interest in doing so. Because it is the responsibility of Federal statistical agencies to produce relevant, accurate, and objective statistics in a manner that protects participant confidentiality, OMB has established an Interagency Working Group on Measuring SOGI (SOGI IWG). This presentation describes recent progress made by the Federal Statistical System (FSS) in the collection of SOGI as well as the progress made by the SOGI IWG in describing current SOGI measures, scientific evaluations of SOGI measures, and the establishment of a research agenda on SOGI measurement within the FSS.
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