Groningen City Panel Survey on LGBTQ+ Acceptance and Safety Perceptions

Survey data from the Groningen City Panel reveals that 12% of respondents experienced name-calling based on sexual orientation in the past year. The dataset, published by the Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations, captures divided opinions on safety and acceptance of homosexuals, bisexuals, and transgender people in the city, province, and wider Netherlands. It is available under a CC-BY-4.0 license.

Use Cases

• Analyze differences in safety perceptions between heterosexual and non-heterosexual respondents as mentioned in the description.
• Model public acceptance of LGBTQ+ individuals based on survey responses about the city, province, and country.
• Study correlations between experiences of harassment (e.g., name-calling) and overall perceptions of acceptance.
• Compare attitudes within the city of Groningen to those in the wider Randstad region and the Netherlands.

Strengths

• Includes a specific statistic (12%) on experiences of harassment based on orientation.
• Compares perceptions across multiple geographic scales: city, province, Randstad, and the Netherlands.
• Distinguishes between respondent groups (heterosexual vs. non-heterosexual) for comparative analysis.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Last update date is unknown; freshness unverified.

Provenance

Source

Ministerie van Binnenlandse Zaken en Koninkrijksrelaties (Dutch Ministry of the Interior and Kingdom Relations)

Collection Method

Likely contains survey responses from a municipal citizen panel.

Geography

City of Groningen, the province of Groningen, the Randstad region, and the Netherlands.