ADULT LGBT POPULATION in the United States

Conron Adult LGBT Population in the United States | 1 This report provides estimates of the number and percent of the U. [...] More specifically, our prevalence estimates of the LGBT population for the 37 states that used the BRFSS SOGI module in one or both years are the same as the weighted statistic one would obtain from direct analyses of BRFSS data for those years.4 For states and the District of Columbia (DC) where the SOGI module was not used in either 2020 or 2021 and therefore no estimates of the LGBT population. [...] We include statewide contextual variables such as the racial-ethnic composition of the state, the percentage of same-sex couple households in the state, from the American Community Survey and statewide measures of public opinion on LGBT rights from the PRRI American Values Atlas. [...] However, we observed that the model-based BRFSS estimates were an average of 1% higher than the direct estimates, so we subtracted the intercept of the model- estimates from the main effect to provide more conservative model-based estimate of proportion LGBT among adults in the 13 states and DC that did not collect SOGI data in 2020 or 2021. [...] Model-based estimates and direct estimates from BRFSS To create population estimates for age subgroups of the LGBT population, model-based estimates of the proportion of LGBT people within each age group (e.g., 18 to 24, 25 to 34 years) were generated for each geospatial unit (e.g., state, region, national) and then multiplied by the population estimate of all people in that age subgroup for each.