Events

Event Title	Capturing Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity (SOGI) in Survey Research (Online)
Location	Online via Zoom
Sponsor	H.W. Odum Institute
Date/Time	09/07/2023 12:00 PM - 4:00 PM
Event Price
Cutoff Date	09/03/2023 Must register before this date

For more information, contact the event administrator: Jill Stevens jill_stevens@unc.edu

Event Presenters

Name	Title
Justine Bulgar-Medina		Research methodologist at the National Opinion Research Center (NORC) at the University of Chicago, working in the Department of Statistics and Methodology

This course will be offered over one afternoon (9/7/23 from 12pm – 4pm US Eastern) via Zoom only.

Attendance is required as the course will not be recorded.

This short course will provide participants with a broad overview of considerations and approaches for capturing sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) in survey research. This includes examining the current best practices and approaches, and considerations for sampling and other key design considerations when researching these populations. The workshop is intended to give participants an opportunity to better understand the various current approaches to measuring SOGI, and hands-on practice developing responsive best-practice versions of SOGI questions for their own research needs.

Topics:

The (in)consistency of including SOGI items in research
Reviewing national and state approaches to SOGI data collection
The components of sexual orientation and gender identity
Measuring SOGI together, and separately
Considerations when measuring SOGI minorities among other minority groups
Thinking of SOGI as a not-so-sensitive answer, but potentially a sensitive question
Moving beyond binaries in response options
Developing fit-for-purpose SOGI questions for unique subpopulations or survey needs
Resources for SOGI best-practices and emerging research

This course will count as 4.0 CSS short course credit hours.