Recommended ways to request demographic information for research/surveys:
Category: Ethnicity/Race: Ethnicity
Question: What is your ethnicity? Select all that apply.
Response Options:
Category: Sexual Orientation
Question: Sexual Orientation (select all that apply):
Response Options:
Category: Gender Identity
Option 1
Question: Transgender is an umbrella term that refers to people whose gender identity, expression or behavior is different from those typically associated with their assigned sex at birth. Other identities considered to fall under this umbrella can include non-binary, gender fluid, and genderqueer – as well as many more. Do you identify as transgender?
Response Options:
Option 2
Question: What is your current gender identity? (Check all that apply)
Response Options:
Option 3
Question: Gender identity (choose all that apply):
Response Options:
Option 4
Question:
2. Would you describe yourself as transgender?
Q2 responses:
Helpful Resources
Category: Ethnicity/Race: Ethnicity
Question: What is your ethnicity? Select all that apply.
Response Options:
- African American or Black (for example: African American, Jamaican, Haitian, Nigerian, Ethiopian, Somalian, etc.)
- American Indian or Alaska Native (For example: Navajo Nation, Blackfeet Tribe, Mayan, Aztec, Native Village of Barrow Inupiat Traditional Government, Nome Eskimo Community, etc.,)
- Asian (For example: Chinese, Filipino, Asian Indian, Vietnamese, Korean, Japanese, etc.),
- Middle Eastern or North African (for example: Lebanese, Iranian, Egyptian, Syrian, Moroccan, Algerian, etc.),
- Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (for example: Native Hawaiian, Samoan, Chamorro, Tongan, Fijian, Marshallese, etc.),
- White (for example: German, Irish, English, Italian, Polish, French, etc.),
- Other, please specify
Category: Sexual Orientation
Question: Sexual Orientation (select all that apply):
Response Options:
- asexual
- bisexual
- gay
- straight (heterosexual)
- lesbian
- pansexual
- queer
- questioning or unsure
- same-gender loving
- an identity not listed: please specify ____________________________
- prefer not to disclose
Category: Gender Identity
Option 1
Question: Transgender is an umbrella term that refers to people whose gender identity, expression or behavior is different from those typically associated with their assigned sex at birth. Other identities considered to fall under this umbrella can include non-binary, gender fluid, and genderqueer – as well as many more. Do you identify as transgender?
Response Options:
- Yes
- No
- Prefer not to say
Option 2
Question: What is your current gender identity? (Check all that apply)
Response Options:
- Male
- Female
- Trans male/Trans man
- Trans female/Trans woman
- Genderqueer/Gender non-conforming
- Different identity (please state): _______
Option 3
Question: Gender identity (choose all that apply):
Response Options:
- agender
- androgyne
- demigender
- genderqueer or gender fluid
- man
- questioning or unsure
- trans man
- trans woman
- woman
- additional gender category/identity: please specify
Option 4
Question:
- Gender:
- female
- male
- nonbinary
- prefer not to answer
2. Would you describe yourself as transgender?
Q2 responses:
- Yes
- No
- prefer not to answer
Helpful Resources
- https://www.hrc.org/resources/collecting-transgender-inclusive-gender-data-in-workplace-and-other-surveys
- https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/geniuss-report-sep-2014.pdf
- https://medium.com/@anna.sarai.rosenberg/respectful-collection-of-demographic-data-56de9fcb80e2