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Why are there so few gay people in the east of England?
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Why are there so few gay people in the east of England?

• Host: GitHub
• URL: https://github.com/bbc-data-unit/sexuality-regions
• Owner: BBC-Data-Unit
• Created: 2017-10-11T10:58:16.000Z (about 7 years ago)
• Default Branch: master
• Last Pushed: 2017-10-11T11:03:40.000Z (about 7 years ago)
• Last Synced: 2024-11-07T05:28:35.461Z (about 2 months ago)
• Topics: ons, sexuality
• Homepage: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-41475038
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# Why are there so few gay people in the east of England?

![](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/BBC-Data-Unit/sexuality-regions/master/Lesbian%2C%20gay%20or%20bisexual%20people%20by%20region%202016.png)

In October 2017 **Daniel Wainwright and Kate Scotter** [looked at](http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-41475038) new ONS statistics on sexual identity. 

## Get the data

* ONS: [Sexual identity, UK: 2016](https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/culturalidentity/sexuality/bulletins/sexualidentityuk/2016#london-has-the-highest-percentage-of-the-population-who-identify-as-lesbian-gay-or-bisexual)

* CSV: [Percentage of population who identify as LGB, by region, including confidence interval](https://github.com/BBC-Data-Unit/sexuality-regions/blob/master/Figure_4-_English_region_by_gay_or_lesbian_and_bisexual_population%2C_2016.csv)

## Visualisation

* Bar chart: Lesbian, gay or bisexual people by region, 2016 (shown above). The BBC content management system for creating graphics does not include the ability to show a confidence interval or margin of error.