Recent critiques of these studies have suggested that because of their
dependence on self-identification, they may have under counted the true
prevalence of people with a history of same sex behavior and/or desire.
Australia[edit]
- 2003
The largest and most thorough survey in Australia to date was conducted by
telephone interview with 19,307 respondents between the ages of 16 and 59 in
2001/2002. The study found that 97.4% of men identified as heterosexual, 1.6% as
homosexual and 0.9% as bisexual. For women 97.7% identified as heterosexual,
0.8% as
lesbian and 1.4% as bisexual.
Nevertheless, 8.6% of men and 15.1% of women reported either feelings of
attraction to the same gender or some sexual experience with the same
gender.
[10]
Overall, 8.6% of women and 5.9% of men reported some homosexual experience in
their lives; these figures fell to 5.7% and 5.0% respectively when non-genital
sexual experience was excluded.
[11] Half the men and
two thirds of the women who had same-sex sexual experience regarded themselves
as heterosexual rather than homosexual.
[12]
- 1988
A study of 5,514 college and university students under the age of 25 found 1%
who were homosexual and 1% who were bisexual.
[13]
Denmark[edit]
- 1992
A random survey found that 2.7% of the 1,373 men who responded to their
questionnaire had homosexual experience (intercourse).
[14]
- 1992
A study of 20,055 people found that 4.1% of the men and 2.6% of the women had
at least one occurrence of intercourse with person of the same sex during their
lifetime.
[15][16]
Ireland[edit]
- 2006
A study of the responses of 7,441 individuals, conducted by the
ESRI, found that 2.7% of
men and 1.2% of women self-identified as homosexual or bisexual. A question
based on a variant of the
Kinsey scale found that 5.3% of men and 5.8% of
women reported some same-sex attraction. Of those surveyed, 7.1% of men and 4.7%
of women reported a homosexual experience some time in their life so far. It
also found that 4.4% of men and 1.4% of women reported a "genital same-sex
experience" (oral or anal sex, or any other genital contact) in their life so
far.
[17] The study was
commissioned and published by the Crisis Pregnancy Agency in partnership with
the
Department of Health
and Children.
New Zealand[edit]
- 2007
In an anonymous survey of 8,000 New Zealand secondary school students
conducted by the
University of Auckland, 0.9% of those
surveyed reported exclusive attraction to the same sex, 3.3% to both sexes and
1.8% to neither.
[18]
- 1988
In a random survey of 6,300 Norwegians, 3.5% of the men and 3% of the women
reported that they had a homosexual experience sometime in their life.
[19]
United Kingdom[edit]
Sexual identity
in the UK, 2012.
- 1992
A study of 8,337 British men found that 6.1% have had a "homosexual
experience" and 3.6% had "1+ homosexual partner ever."
[20]
- 2005
HM Treasury and the Department of Trade and Industry completed a survey to
help the government analyse the financial implications of the Civil Partnerships
Act (such as pensions, inheritance and tax benefits). They concluded that there
were 3.6 m gay people in
Britain—around 6% of the total population or 1
in 16.66 people.
[21]
- 2010
A representative survey of 238,206 Britons, exclusive to their categories,
found 1% identified as gay or lesbian and 0.5% said they were bisexual. A
further 0.5% self-identified as "other", and 3% responded as "do not know" or
refused to answer.
[22] In total
this adds up to 5% of people who do not identify as heterosexual, or
alternatively 99% who do not identify as either gay or lesbian. Ben Summerskill,
chief executive of the gay equality charity Stonewall stated: "This is the first
time that people were asked and data collection happened on doorsteps or over
the phone, which may deter people from giving accurate responses - particularly
if someone isn't openly gay at home." Stonewall worked with 600 major employers
and their experience had shown that these statistics increased when people were
regularly asked about sexual orientation as part of general monitoring
information.
- 2011
The Integrated Household Survey,
[23] produced by the
Office of National Statistics, gives the following figures for the period April
2011 to March 2012:
- 1.5 per cent of the surveyed UK population, approximately 545,000 adults,
identified themselves as Gay or Lesbian.
- 0.4 per cent of the surveyed UK population, approximately 220,000 adults,
identified themselves as Bisexual.
- 1.3 per cent identified themselves as "Other".
- 3.6 per cent of adults stated "Don't know" or refused to answer the
question.
- 0.2 per cent of respondents provided "No response" to the question.
- 2.7 per cent of 16- to 24-year-olds in the UK identified themselves as Gay,
Lesbian or Bisexual compared with 0.4 per cent of 65-year-olds and
over.
United States[edit]
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