The questionnaire

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3.1. The structure and

content

The EU LGBTIII survey quest ionnaire was based on the

questionnaire fo r the 2012 EU LGBT survey and was

developed by FRA , after consultation with key st ake-

holders, huma n rights institution s and European and

global exper ts in the area of scientif‌ic research i nto

sexual orientation, gender identity / expression and

sex characteris tics. The revisions to the 2012 ques tion-

naire included:

•deletion of some of the p revious questions;

•addition of new questions;

•minor modific ation to and improvement of the text /

answer categories in some questions that already

existed.

The questionnaire is structured in 12 sections. Each sec-

tion consists of aset of q uestions related to aspeci f‌ic

topic:

•A. introducti on and screening, 16 questions;

•TR. questions s pecifically for trans res pondents,

9questions;

•IX. question s specifically for interse x respondents,

14 questions;

•B. public perception of in crease or decrease in intol-

erance and violence, 5 qu estions;

•C. discrimination, 17 questions;

•D. safe environment, 4 que stions;

•E. physical/sexual atta ck, 11 questions;

•F. harassment, 12 questions;

•G. social context, 2 q uestions;

•H. respondent background, 24 questions;

•I. knowledge about the survey, 4 questions;

•J. individual story, 2 questions.

The full questionnaire is available online (ht tp s: //

fra.europa .eu/sites/default/files/f ra_uploa ds/fra-

2020-questionnaire-eu-lgbti-ii-survey_en.pdf). Al l sec-

tions were mandatory a part from the last one, offeri ng

users an open f‌ield to sh are additional exper iences as

LGBTI people (sectio n J). Furthermore, two section s (TR

and IX) were made availa ble online only for tra ns and

intersex subgroups, respectively.

Each respondent was ca tegorised into one of f‌ive cat-

egories (lesbi an, gay, bisexual, trans or intersex) base d

on the screening qu estions in section A.

The questions were ad apted to ref‌lect the respond-

ent’s category whe n this was necessary. This in pra c-

tice meant that, for examp le, abisexual respo ndent

would see questio n C1 in the following form: ‘During

the last 12 months, have you p ersonally felt discri mi-

nated against beca use of being bisexual in any of t he

following situations?’.

Adding up the questions in all mandatory sections

yielded 118 main questions with either asingle response

or multiple respo nses. Despite initial concern about it s

length, the average com pletion time for the onl ine

questionnai re was 18 minutes, given that most of t he

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The questionnaire