What’s changed in OSR’s guidance?

This guidance updates and supersedes the OSR previous draft guidance on collecting and reporting data about sex in official statistics, published in 2021.

This guidance was developed based on feedback on our pre-existing guidance, as well as our regulatory work on these issues. We sought feedback on a draft version of this guidance from official statistics producers across a wide range of government departments and the Devolved Administrations. We also met with a number of external stakeholders to gather wider views. We would like to express our gratitude to all the individuals who engaged with us, this process was instrumental in the development of this guidance.

Any future updates to this guidance will be recorded here.