Evidence Exchange of LGB&T Statistics
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57% of the LGB&T respondents to this Northern Ireland survey drink to a hazardous level compared to 24% of adults in England.
Topics:
Substance Misuse:
Alcohol
44% of LGB&T respondents smoke cigarettes compared to 24% of people in Northern Ireland as a whole.
Topics:
Substance Misuse:
Smoking
32% of transgendered respondents smoke cigarettes regularly compared to 27% of all the survey respondents.
Topics:
Substance Misuse:
Smoking
Of those who drink alcohol, LGB&T people are approximately twice as likely as the Northern Ireland population to drink daily or most days.
Topics:
Substance Misuse:
Alcohol
In the Northern Ireland population men are more likely than women to drink daily or most days (8% v 5%), however, this is reversed in the LGB&T community in which 14% of women and 12% of men drink this frequently.
Topics:
Substance Misuse:
Alcohol
A third of bisexual men have experienced a health professional attributing mental health problems to their bisexuality
Topics:
Discrimination:
Healthcare
Mental Health:
Other
Bisexual people are around six times more likely to have experienced suicidal feelings than heterosexual people.
Topics:
Mental Health:
Suicide & Self Harm
70% of football fans have witnessed homophobic abuse at a match.
Topics:
Discrimination:
Hate Crime, Bullying
Over a third of students percieve an anti-LGBT attitude in UK universities
Topics:
Discrimination:
Education
2 in 5 teachers feel uncomfortable discussing LGB issues.
Topics:
Discrimination:
Education
Three quarters of young LGB people who attend religious schools experience direct bullying.
Topics:
Discrimination:
Bullying, Education
One in five LGB people have experienced homophobic hate crime.
Topics:
Discrimination:
Hate Crime
BBC programming did not include any specifically bisexual characters or issues in 2012.
Topics:
Discrimination:
Media
In the population of Northern Ireland men are more likely to drink than women (78% v 72%), this trend is reversed within the LGB&T community in which 93% of women and 89% of men drink alcohol.
Topics:
Substance Misuse:
Alcohol
Half of transgender people in Northern Ireland displayed a sign of drug abuse within the last year and 10% indicated severe drug abuse.
Topics:
Substance Misuse:
Drugs
91% of the LGB&T community in Northern Ireland drink alcohol, compared to 74% of the Northern Ireland population.
Topics:
Substance Misuse:
Alcohol
LGB&T people in Northern Ireland are three times as likely to have taken an illegal drug in their lifetime than the wider Northern Irish population.
Topics:
Substance Misuse:
Drugs
One quarter of LGB&T people in Northern Ireland provided an indication of abusing drugs within the last year with 6% showing symptoms of severe drug abuse.
Topics:
Substance Misuse:
Drugs
Three quarters of transgender people in Northern Ireland have taken an illegal drug in their lifetime.
Topics:
Substance Misuse:
Drugs
Three quarters of the LGBT sample were ‘active’ in public or political life while one quarter was ‘non-active’.read more
6% of respondents said that feeling part of the LGBT community/communities had had no impact on their emotional wellbeing/ mental health.
Topics:
Mental Health:
Other, Building Social Networks
Three quarters of respondents said that feeling part of the LGBT community/communities had had a positive impact on their general quality of life.
Topics:
Mental Health:
Building Social Networks
2% of respondents said that feeling part of the LGBT community/communities had had a negative impact on their general quality of life.
Topics:
Mental Health:
Building Social Networks
1 in 10 respondents said that feeling part of the LGBT community/communities had had no impact on their general quality of life.
Topics:
Mental Health:
Building Social Networks
4% of respondents said that feeling part of the LGBT community/communities had had a negative impact on their emotional wellbeing/ mental health.
Topics:
Mental Health:
Other, Building Social Networks
3 in 4 respondents said that feeling part of the LGBT community/communities had had a positive impact on their emotional wellbeing/ mental health.
Topics:
Mental Health:
Other, Building Social Networks
4% of respondents said that feeling part of the LGBT community/communities had had a negative impact on their physical health.
Topics:
Physical Health:
Other
36% of respondents said they felt that feeling part of the LGBT community/communities had had a positive impact on their physical health.
Topics:
Physical Health:
Other
4% of respondents said that feeling part of the LGBT community/communities had had a negative impact on their physical health.
Topics:
Physical Health:
Other
37% of respondents said they felt that feeling part of the LGBT community/communities had had no impact on their physical health.
Topics:
Physical Health:
Other