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

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

In October 2017 Daniel Wainwright and Kate Scotter looked at new ONS statistics on sexual identity.

Get the data

• ONS: Sexual identity, UK: 2016
• CSV: Percentage of population who identify as LGB, by region, including confidence interval

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.