Scotland's Census 2022 - Detailed and write-in responses
An Accredited Official Statistics publication for Scotland
Last updated: 3 October 2024
Download write-in responses for the Ethnic group, national identity, language and religion topic.
Download write-in responses for the Sexual orientation and trans status or history topic.
Ethnic group, national identity, language and religion
A number of questions under this topic asked users to provide write in responses. These questions were:
- Ethnic group
- Country of birth
- Main language
- Religion
- Passports held
The write-in responses to these questions were published 3 October 2024.
These will not sum to published totals as they do not include responses that were provided by fewer than 10 respondents.
The topic release for ethnic group, national identity, language and religion was published 21 May 2024.
The quality assurance report that was published alongside the topic release includes information relevant to the questions listed above.
Sexual orientation and trans status or history
Write-in responses to the questions on Sexual orientation and trans status or history questions were published alongside the topic report.
These will not sum to published totals as they do not include responses that were provided by fewer than 10 respondents or imputed records which are included in standard published outputs.
More information on the write-in responses for these questions is included in the Sexual orientation and trans status or history quality assurance report.
Sexual orientation
Write-in responses published for the sexual orientation question include census respondents who provided text under the 'other sexual orientation' tick box in sexual orientation question and were coded to a sexual orientation category. They do not include people who only provided a tick response and no text. They also do not include imputed records which are included in standard published outputs.
Trans status or history
Write-in responses for the trans status or history question include responses from people who were coded to a trans category (trans man, trans woman, non-binary, trans status: not specified and other trans status or history). They do not include people who were not coded to one of the five high level trans categories. The list does not include people who only provided a tick response and no text.