Sexual identity in Britain

	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H
1	Category	Heterosexual/ straight	Gay/ lesbian/ bi-sexual	Gay/lesbian	Bisexual	Other	Don't know/ refused	No response

2	Totals, %	94.8	1.5	1	0.5	0.5	2.8	0.5
3	Est. members of British public (nos)	46,922,000	726,000	481,000	245,000	242,000
4	% of people in 1-person households who are…	93.3	2	1.6	0.4	0.7	0	4
5	% of people in 2-person households who are…	95.2	1.9	1.3	0.6	0.5	0.3	2.2
6	% of people in 3-person households who are…	95.2	1.9	1.3	0.6	0.5	0.3	2.2
7	% of people in 4+ person households who are…	94.9	0.8	0.3	0.5	0.4	0.9	3
8	% of group who are aged 16-24	14.5	18.4	16.9	21.1	11.1	20.6	35.2
9	% of group who are aged 25-44	34.1	46.5	49.9	39.9	32.9	29	34.7
10	% of group who are aged 45-64	31.8	26.9	27.3	26.2	30.4	25.9	25.6
11	% of group who are aged 65+	19.6	8.2	5.9	12.7	25.6	24.5	4.5
12	Male	48.7	54.6	66.2	31.8	46.2	47.8	59.1
13	Female	51.3	45.4	33.8	68.2	53.8	52.2	40.9
14	Ethnicity: white	90.7	93.5			85.9	81.8	85.3
15	Ethnicity: other	9.3	6.5			14.1	18.2	14.7
16	Have a religion	79.6	66.5			77.4	80.5	78.4
17	No religion	20.4	33.5			22.6	19.5	21.6
18	Managerial and professional occupations	30.6	42.1	49.1	28.1	23.2	24.4	15.9
19	Intermediate occupations	16.2	14.7	13.7	16.7	14.5	13.5	8.2
20	Routine and manual occupations	29.4	23	20.9	27.1	31.1	23	12.1
21	Never worked and long term unemployed	6	5	3.1	8.9	9.4	9.9	7.8
22	Not classified	17.7	15.2	13.2	19.2	21.8	29.1	56.1
23	Degree level qualification, or equivalent	21.9	33.3	38.1	23.5	21.3	21.7	19.5
24	Other higher education qualification	9.5	10.8	11.8	8.6	8	7.3	7.7
25	A level or equiv	14.9	15.4	14.5	17.4	12	14.1	23.9
26	O level, GCSE (A* to C)	21	17.6	17.1	18.8	18	21.3	24.3
27	Other	19.6	14.9	12.8	19.4	20.6	18.1	14.2
28	No qualifications	13.2	7.9	5.7	12.3	20	17.4	10.4
29	Employed (16-64)	68.6	71	74.8	63	60.5	62.9	71.4
30	Unemployed (16+)	8.6	9.6	8.4	12.6	13.5	9.8	11.7
31	Economically inactive (16-64)	24.8	21.4	18.4	27.8	29.9	30.2	19.1
32	Single (never married)	32.5	61.7			36.9	41.1	52.3
33	Married, living with spouse	48.2	19.1			40.5	35.9	40.9
34	Married, separated from spouse	3	1.3			4.3	3.2	1.3
35	Divorced	9.1	5.4			7.5	7.5	4.3
36	Widowed	7.2	0.7			10.2	12.1	1
37	Currently or previously in a civil partnership	<0.1	11.8			0.6	0.1	0.2
38	Cohabiting	34.6	45.8			23.5	17.2	20.2
39	Not cohabiting	65.4	54.2			76.5	82.8	79.8
40	Dependent children in the household	34.1	15.8	8.6	30	26.9	28.5	40.4
41	No dependent children in the household	65.9	84.2	91.4	70	73.1	71.5	59.6
42	In good health	78.8	78.1	80.4	73.6	72.8	74.5	86.5
43	Not in good health	21.2	21.9	19.6	26.4	27.2	25.5	13.5
44	Currently smokes cigarettes	22.7	33.3	35	30	26.7	19.2	22.2
45	Ex-smoker	34.9	32.4	33.5	30.2	28.9	30.1	27.2
46	Never smoked	42.4	34.3	31.5	39.8	44.3	50.7	50.6
47	North East	96.7	1.1			0.5	1.3	0.4
48	North West	95.5	1.5			0.3	2.2	0.4
49	Yorkshire and The Humber	95.4	1.5			0.5	2.1	0.4
50	East Midlands	96	1.1			0.4	2.3	0.3
51	West Midlands	93.3	1.2			0.7	4.3	0.5
52	East of England	95	1.1			0.4	3.2	0.3
53	London	92.3	2.2			0.6	4.2	0.6
54	South East	94.7	1.5			0.6	2.8	0.5
55	South West	95.4	1.8			0.4	2	0.4
56	Wales	95.6	1.3			0.4	1.9	0.8
57	Scotland	95.7	1.3			0.3	2	0.6
58	Northern Ireland	92.4	0.9			0.4	5.3	1