History was quietly made Friday in the monthly jobs report. - NBCOUT
Same-sex spouses specifically — and the LGBTQ community more broadly — are increasingly being included in government data, like the jobs report, the decennial census and the Current Population Survey. Maury said this inclusion is crucial to the work of advocacy groups, like hers.
“When we are speaking with a decisionmaker and telling the stories of our experience, if we don’t have data to back up what we’re saying, often decisionmakers write it off as uncommon,” Maury explained. Two noteworthy additions to the upcoming 2020 census are the additional relationship categories of “same-sex husband/wife/spouse” and “same-sex unmarried partner.” While the 2010 census did provide information about same-sex couples, Maury said it required her team to “pick apart the data” to get relevant information. The new addition to the 2020 census, she added, “will allow us to get more accurate information on the location and race of LGBTQ folks.
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