The number of transgender people in England and Wales was 'incorrectly registered' in the last census, officials admitted for the first time yesterday.
Bosses at the National Statistics office said that data suggests that there were 262,000 trans -individuals 'not being used' as an exact reflection of the population.
It comes after a watchdog last year reduced the us figures and said that they would no longer be recognized as “accredited official statistics.”
The census of 2021 – the first to have Transmensen – asked: “Is the gender that you identify with the same as your gender registered at birth?” The Office for Statistics Regulation showed that people whose first language was not English were four times more likely to say they were transmen than English speakers.
The watchdog added that the us was 'closed and sometimes defensive' after criticism of his data and was aimed at 'defending' his estimates.
Yesterday we admitted that some people were 'incorrectly included as Trans' in the census of 2021. But because of the 'limitations with the data' it was unable to draw 'conclusions about the scale or the effect of this'.
Nevertheless, we told us that it had 'high confidence' that the data from 2021 could still be used to give a 'broad indication' of the total size of the trans -population.
But it said that more detailed estimates of transpopulations should not be used 'and added:' The Census 2021 estimates of gender identity should not be used to give estimates of the size of the population that are identified as each of the man, trans Woman, Non-Binary. '
The number of transgender people in England and Wales was 'incorrectly registered' in the latest census, civil servants admitted
Displayed: Fiona Mcaanena, director of campaigns at Human Rights Charity Sex Matters
Bosses with us said data suggests that there were 262,000 trans -individuals' should not be used as an exact reflection of the population
After a public contract, which last week commissioned commissioned, it will be commissioned that the merger of sex and gender has become 'widespread' in official data in the past decade.
The Sullivan Review showed that there is a 'particial climate' in public authorities, including the us, and called on the government to perform an 'evaluation of activism and impartiality' in those bodies.
Fiona McAanena, director of campaigns in human rights of characters, said: 'Four years later and the us still has to spend time and means to unravel the mess that is generated by the confusing gender question in the Census 2021.
“The us repeatedly ignored the input of experts who were given in good faith that this was a shame and expensive debacle and instead followed advice from ideologically driven activist groups.”
