No Place for Hate Crime - National Union of Students

Appendix 1 Student respondent profile
Gender and gender identity
Seventy per cent of respondents were female, 29 per
cent were male (2,697) and 0.6 per cent preferred not
to select (51).
The vast majority (99 per cent) stated that their gender
identity was the same as assigned at birth (9,146). Only
0.4 per cent (40) stated that their gender identity was
not the same as assigned at birth and 0.5 per cent (42)
preferred not to say.
Sexual orientation
Eighty-seven per cent of the students surveyed were
heterosexual (7,974). The self-identification of the
remaining 13 per cent can be broken down as follows:
• lesbian 2 per cent (157)
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• gay 4 per cent (363)
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• other 0.8 per cent (78).
Ethnic origin
bisexual 5 per cent (479)
preferred not to say 2 per cent (168)
Eighty-three per cent respondents identified themselves
as being from a white background:
• white British 73 per cent (6,715)
• white Irish 2 per cent (190)
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other white background 8 per cent (706).
Seven per cent identified themselves as being from an
Asian or Asian British background:
• Indian 3 per cent (257)
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Bangladeshi 0.5 per cent (43)
Pakistani 2 per cent (147)
other Asian background 1 per cent (119).
Two per cent of our respondents self-identified as being
from a black or black British background:
• black Caribbean 1 per cent (90)
• black African 1 per cent (127)
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other black background 0.1 per cent other (9).
Three per cent of students surveyed said they were
from a mixed race background:
• white and black Caribbean 1 per cent (82)
• white and black African 0.3 per cent (31)
• white and Asian 1 per cent (110)
• other mixed background 1 per cent (110).
Two per cent of our sample was Chinese (189) and
another 2 per cent indicated they were from an ‘other’
ethnicity not listed (199). One per cent preferred not to
say their ethnic origin (102).
Religion, faith or belief
Thirty-eight per cent of respondents stated they had
no religion (3,530) and another 34 per cent indicated
they were Christian (3,167). Twelve per cent of students
surveyed were atheist (1,089). We received low
response rates from students of other religions:
• Bahai 0.1 per cent (4)
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• Jain 0.1 per cent (5)
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• Sikh 0.7 per cent (63)
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Buddhist 1 per cent (89)
Hindu 1 per cent (125)
Jewish 0.8 per cent (70)
Muslim 4 per cent (326)
preferred not to say 3 per cent (288)
other 5 per cent (466).
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