Table 1.

Estimates of the size of the lesbian, gay and bisexual (LGB) population of England

Method	Weighting approach	LGB (%)	Lesbian and gay (%)	Bisexual (%)	‘Other’ (%)
1	Unweighted	2.51	1.25	0.60	0.65
2	Weighted by log sample size	2.52	1.27	0.63	0.62
3	Weighted by log sample size and response rate	2.51	1.26	0.63	0.61
4	Weighted by inverse proportion of missing dataa	2.50	1.25	0.60	0.66
5	Weighted by log sample size, response rate and inverse proportion of missing dataa	2.50	1.25	0.63	0.61

^aMissing data: people who responded ‘don’t know’, ‘prefer not to say’, refused and gave no answer