Issues in Survey Methods and Analysis about LGBTI+ Communities |
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| Coordinator 1 | Dr Angelo Moretti (Utrecht University) |
| Coordinator 2 | Dr Katharina Meitinger (Utrecht University) |
Data collection and analyses focusing on LGBTI+ communities, which are vital for providing reliable information to policymakers, suffer from important issues. In particular, data collection efforts often fall short in addressing the wide range of issues affecting LGBTI+ populations. This data lack impacts policy effectiveness, significantly affecting the lives and well-being of LGBTI+ people.
These populations are ‘hard-to-reach’ populations, making them difficult for survey researchers to access; thus, carefully designed sampling methods are necessary. Additionally, significant methodological challenges arise when analysing collected data, particularly concerning confidentiality and privacy, as well as representativeness issues. These concerns can lead to measurement errors, such as underreporting of discrimination and victimisation. Therefore, these issues must be considered when developing and applying statistical methods. Moreover, due to the unique nature of the subject, variable distributions may feature a large number of zeros, making standard statistical approaches, especially based on models, inadequate.
We invite substantive and methodological papers addressing survey methods and analysis issues related to LGBTI+ populations. Methodological papers may cover sampling designs, data integration involving new data forms, weighting approaches, and statistical modeling approaches for robust analysis.