Opportunities and challenges in public data gathering on LGBTI+ people in the Nordic countries

Currently, there are more often than before gathered data on LGBTI+ people both by the public research institutions as well as by academics and by non-governmental organisations in the Nordic countries. New possibilities create spaces to ponder upon on how to collect survey and register data that takes into account the diversity of research participants and that uses the benefits of collaboration between public and civil organisations and between research institutions in Nordic countries. The challenges for this data gathering and research include resistance by anti-gender movement activists and others, gender-binary thinking and heteronormative premises in survey questionnaires, lack of economic and knowledge resources, and specific methodological and ethical questions that limit the chances of data production on LGBTI themes.

 

The webinar is organized as part of the seminar 'Public Data Gathering on LGBTI+ People in Nordic Countries,' funded by the Nordic Council of Ministers.

A two-hour webinar with four key-notes on these subjects is streamed online for free. 

Plenary session, 21.10.2025, at 10-12
Chair: Hanna Onwen-Huma Ministerial Adviser, Ministry for Social Affairs and Health, Finland

Welcome Speech
Mika Salminen, Director General, Finnish Institute for Health and Welfare (THL)

Inter-governmental work on gender equality and LGBTI issues by the Nordic 
Council of Ministers
Tanja Auvinen, Director, Gender Equality Unit, Ministry of Social Affairs and Health, Finland

Troubling histories and current pressures of public data gathering on LGBTI+ people
Jukka Lehtonen, Professor Adjunct (Title of docent) in Sociology of Education, University of Helsinki

Anti-gender movement – threat to public data gathering on LGBTI+ people
Julian Honkasalo, Professor Adjunct (Title of docent), Research Council of Finland senior scholar, University of Helsinki

Nordic challenge: Youth and elderly participation in public data gathering on 
LGBTI+ people
Janne Bromseth, Senior researcher, Universitetet i Innlandet

Transgender lives at the population level: Evidence from Danish administrative data
Jane Greve, Professor and deputy head, The Danish Center for Social Science Research (VIVE).

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Information

Jaana Suvisaari 
Tutkimusprofessori
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