I have mixed feelings as well; I'm enough of a demographer at heart that I adore the idea of getting gsolid numbers on orientation for once, but it would be incredibly difficult to get any sort of accurate numbers, I think (esp. given the fact, as evidenced here, that nobody can really agree on what the categories should be.) I'm not sure exactly how they would be relevant for the sorts of things the census is usually used for. (I can see how it could be relevant, but there's not that much federal funding going out about sexual-orientation related stuff anyway. Which I suppose is the point. But if I was running an LGBT organization, I personally would be more interested in getting the federal funding to trans people, especially as regards medical and social work stuff.)
.. (And it seems like somehing of a futile effort this year anyway, since they've cut a whole *ton* of questions out of the short form already, including the religion ones, iirc.)
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Date: 2010-03-12 06:26 pm (UTC).. (And it seems like somehing of a futile effort this year anyway, since they've cut a whole *ton* of questions out of the short form already, including the religion ones, iirc.)