Equality and Human Rights Commission

Briefing paper:Religion or belief

This report briefing paper seeks to present within a single, short, document the best available recent statistical data in Britain on a range of issues relating to religion or belief.

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Briefing paper: Gender pay gap

This briefing paper seeks to present within a single, short, document the best available, and publicly accessible, recent statistical data in the United Kingdom (UK) relating to gender pay gaps.

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Briefing paper 3: Disabled people's experiences and concerns about crime Analysis of the British Crime Survey 2007-08, 2008-09 and 2009-10

This briefing looks at disabled people’s experiences of crime and compares these with the experiences of non-disabled people. It considers the impact of crime on disabled people's lifestyles and concludes with disabled people's concerns about experiencing crime in the future. The briefing supports the Equality and Human Rights Commission (the Commission)’s inquiry into disability-related harassment.

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Briefing paper 4: Equality groups; perceptions and experience of crime Analysis of the British Crime Survey 2007-08, 2008-09 and 2009-10

This briefing uses British Crime Survey (BCS) data to understand the different equality groups’ expectations about being insulted and their experience of intimidation, threats, violence and crime.

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Technical note: measuring gender identity

In this paper, we outline the process followed so far in developing questions on gender identity and gender reassignment and we report results from testing a suite of five questions on an online, self-completion survey.

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