Wesley Stevenson
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1,470 appearances
54 recordings
1 series
first heard Sep 2010
last heard May 2015
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One article in The Observer suggested that kind of randomly turning up on the doorstep and asking questions might not necessarily get a good response.
But this isn't really how it works.
People are contacted in advance and they're asked to take part and then they have to agree and then an interviewer makes an appointment to visit their house.
Now, as you imply, asking a question in front of other people you live with might not elicit an honest answer.
So the Office for National Statistics have devised a method for keeping the answer anonymous.
Stephen Hicks from the ONS explains how it works.
Well, the ONS say that devising this method had brought down the number of refusals to answer and the don't knows.
People did seem to be quite frank as well.
For instance, nearly 20% of those who said they were gay, lesbian or bisexual were actually married to and still living with a partner of the opposite sex.
Stephen Hicks from the ONS thinks they got a pretty good estimate.
And they didn't just come up with this question.
They did a lot of research into getting the right question.
Interestingly, they got more responses by adding the option straight next to the heterosexual category.
Yes, other surveys which have asked a similar question have got similar answers, a range of between 0.3% and 3%.
The ONS's 1.5% is pretty much bang in the middle of this, but...
Milley talks about a figure of between 5 and 7%.
Now this came from a document produced by the last government when it was looking at the civil partnerships legislation.
But as Stephen Hicks points out, even the government wasn't sure how accurate it was.
The whole question has made me a little bit nervous.
But first, the usual health warning on this.
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