In this Director?s blog, the Census Bureau is expanding our knowledge on measuring sexual orientation and gender identity.





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Hidden No Longer: Expanding Our Knowledge on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity [ [link removed] ]

"*Written by: Robert Santos, Director*"

Happy Pride Month, everyone! [ [link removed] ] In June our nation celebrates the accomplishments and resilience of our lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex, and asexual (LGBTQIA+) community. To further that celebration, I want to talk about how we at the U.S. Census Bureau are expanding our knowledge on measuring sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI).

The LGBTQIA+ population is a growing and a beautifully diversifying part of our American landscape. Now, the Census Bureau?s mission is to provide quality information about our nation?s people and families. This necessarily includes our LGBTQIA+ population, which is found across all demographic, social, and economic groups in the United States.

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In all our Census Bureau demographic surveys, as well as the decennial census, we collect information about the relationship of each person in a household to one central person. These data reveal same-sex couple households, i.e., households containing a same-sex married or unmarried partner of the householder. According to the 2022 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-year estimates, there were about 1.3 million same-sex couple households in the United States. Roughly 741,000 (or 57 percent) were married, while 537,000 were unmarried. To add to this diversity, about 31 percent of married same-sex couples were interracial in 2022 [ [link removed] ]. This is much higher (by over one-half) than the 19 percent of married opposite-sex couples that were interracial.

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