FOI ref: FOI-2024-2097
You asked
Please provide data showing sexual orientation by occupation, sex and race for England and Wales.
For sex include male/female/persons.
For sexual orientation please use the four classifications, for occupation please use the 10 categories, for race I don’t mind which classification you use, for percentage of group this means the observation as a percentage of their sexual orientation group.
We said
Thank you for your freedom of information request.
The information you have requested in not currently held in a recorded form. Sometimes we need to make changes to data to protect the identity of individuals in our published analyses. This is known as statistical disclosure control (SDC). All census data is subject to statistical disclosure control (SDC).
There is a greater impact on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) topics due to the risk of small values at low geographies. Therefore, we published pre-built datasets including SOGI variables at the lowest possible non-disclosive geography. As a result, SOGI variables are not available within the Create a custom dataset tool.
However, you may be able to order the information to your own specifications via our commissioned table service. Please visit the following link to download a copy of the order form which details the scale of charges for this service: Commissioned table service. Please note such services are subject to disclosure controls, legal frameworks, resources, and an agreement of costs in line with our charging policy.
On receipt of your completed order form, you will be added to the waiting list. Please note that any table produced will have to pass our strict statistical disclosure control process to ensure there is no risk of disclosure of personal information in the table. More information on this process is available here: Protecting personal data in Census 2021 results - Office for National Statistics (ons.gov.uk)