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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Aine Fox

‘Language barrier may have caused confusion on census gender identity question’

Some people who responded to a question in the latest census about their gender identity may not have understood what was being asked due to language barriers, the national statistics body has said.

The 2021 census showed that 262,000 people in England and Wales – 0.5% of the population aged 16 and over – reported that their gender identity was different from their sex registered at birth.

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