What is the size of Australia's sexual minority population?

ABSTRACT:

Objectives

The aim is to present updated estimates of the size of Australia's sexual minority adult population (gay, lesbian, bisexual, and other sexual minority identities). No estimate of this population is currently available from the Australian Bureau of Statistics, and very little is available from other sources. We obtained data on sexual minority identities from three data collections of two national surveys of recent years. Combining averaged prevalence rates from these surveys with official Estimated Resident Population data, we produce estimates of Australia's sexual minority population for recent years.

Results

According to percentages averaged across the three survey datasets, 3.6% of males and 3.4% of females described themselves with a minority sexual identity.

SUBMITTER: Wilson T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7670686 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature