Surveying Sexual and Gender Minorities Methodological Challenges and Good Practices within the Total Survey Error Framework

1. The Total Survey Error Framework for Surveying Sexual and Gender Minorities
Katharina Meitinger and Angelo Moretti

2. Data sources in LGBTIQ+ research: the current state of the art and pitfalls
Angelo Moretti and Katharina Meitinger

3. Assessing Sex Assigned at Birth and Gender Identity Measures within the Total Survey Error Framework
Stephanie Steinmetz, Verena Ortmanns, and Lisa de Vries

4. How many adults are Lesbian, Gay, or Bisexual?:Estimating Cross-national Sexual Identity Rates Form 1984-2024 Through Meta-Synthesis
Philip Brenner, Anonymous, and Justine Bulgar Medina

5. Addressing the absence of sampling frames in LGBT+ research: Using social media and non-traditional data approaches
Eugenia De Rosa, Francesca Inglese, and Marco D. Terribili

6. The Istat-UNAR Web-Based Respondent-Driven Sampling Survey on LGB people: an evaluation
Eugenia De Rosa, Francesca Inglese, and David Trambusti

7. Survey weighting to improve data quality of LGBTQ+ surveys
Ernest Albert and Angelo Moretti

8. Gender and Sexuality Diversity within Large National Population Health Surveys
Jukka Lehtonen

9. Exploring the perceived discrimination of individuals in same-sex couple in Europe: the “buffer” role of marriage
Manuela Stranges and Daniele Vignoli

10. Survey methods and analysis about LGBT populations: where do we go from here?
Angelo Moretti and Katharina Meitinger

Biography

Dr Katharina Meitinger is a cross-cultural survey methodologist in the Department of Methodology and Statistics, Utrecht University. In her research she combines quantitative and qualitative approaches to enhance the inclusiveness, comparability, and quality of international survey data. Her work particularly focusses on measurement aspects of survey data. Her work on optimal cross-national survey measures for sexual and gender minorities is funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) via the projects “Holding the rainbow up: Cross-cultural measurement of gender identification and sexual orientation (SOGI)” and “Regional validity of survey questions on attitudes towards homosexuality in Europe: combining web probing with small area estimation” (in collaboration with Angelo Moretti).

Dr Angelo Moretti is a survey statistician and works at Utrecht University in the Department of Methodology and Statistics. He is an elected member of the International Statistical Institute (ISI). He is part of the European Survey Research Association (ESRA) board, where he is currently serving as Conference Chair. He is the Principal Investigator of the 5-year ERC funded project ‘Small Area Estimation Methods to Monitor the Progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals at the Subnational Level in the European Union (SAESDGs-EU). He has conducted research in small area estimation under multivariate mixed-models, survey calibration, mean squared error estimation based on bootstrap approaches, data integration methods (statistical matching and probabilistic record linkage), and weighting of non-probability samples. His work has been published in leading journals such as the Journal of the Royal Statistical Society: Series C, International Statistical Review, and the Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology.