How is the LGBTQ community impacted
Posted: Thu Feb 06, 2025 3:55 am
Neil TurnbullEdith England and Neil Turnbull introduce the LGBTQ+ Housing and Homelessness Survey 2022-23.
Homelessness is an extreme form of social exclusion, widely recognised as a serious threat to immediate and long-term well-being. Homelessness causes ill health, affects access to education and work, and is associated with high levels of stigma and exclusion. Article 25 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights laos rcs data recognises a right of access to adequate housing – housing that is safe, secure, and accessible, and that enables an individual and their household to participate fully in civil society and culture.
Since 1977, this approach to homelessness – as a lack of adequate home, rather than physical rooflessness – has been integrated into UK law. In the UK, the legal definition of homelessness is that a household has no home in the UK or elsewhere in the world available and that it is reasonable for them to occupy.
We used this data to assess the prevalence of the different work and sleep patterns, and then to estimate regression models each for sleep duration and for sleep disturbance, adjusting for combinations of atypical work patterns, and individual-level factors such as age, caring responsibilities, income, health, job satisfaction, and other conditions that could impact sleep.
What we found
Our results showed nearly a third of participants worked part-time, and more than a third worked extended hours, almost 60% worked weekends, and more than a quarter worked nonstandard schedules. Around half combined two or more atypical work patterns. Two-fifths experienced short sleep (less than 7 hours/night), fewer than 4% experienced long sleep (more than 9 hours/night), and a quarter experienced sleep disturbance (e.g. struggling to fall asleep within half an hour, waking up in the middle of the night or early morning, and a self-rating of poor quality sleep).
Homelessness is an extreme form of social exclusion, widely recognised as a serious threat to immediate and long-term well-being. Homelessness causes ill health, affects access to education and work, and is associated with high levels of stigma and exclusion. Article 25 of the 1948 Universal Declaration of Human Rights laos rcs data recognises a right of access to adequate housing – housing that is safe, secure, and accessible, and that enables an individual and their household to participate fully in civil society and culture.
Since 1977, this approach to homelessness – as a lack of adequate home, rather than physical rooflessness – has been integrated into UK law. In the UK, the legal definition of homelessness is that a household has no home in the UK or elsewhere in the world available and that it is reasonable for them to occupy.
We used this data to assess the prevalence of the different work and sleep patterns, and then to estimate regression models each for sleep duration and for sleep disturbance, adjusting for combinations of atypical work patterns, and individual-level factors such as age, caring responsibilities, income, health, job satisfaction, and other conditions that could impact sleep.
What we found
Our results showed nearly a third of participants worked part-time, and more than a third worked extended hours, almost 60% worked weekends, and more than a quarter worked nonstandard schedules. Around half combined two or more atypical work patterns. Two-fifths experienced short sleep (less than 7 hours/night), fewer than 4% experienced long sleep (more than 9 hours/night), and a quarter experienced sleep disturbance (e.g. struggling to fall asleep within half an hour, waking up in the middle of the night or early morning, and a self-rating of poor quality sleep).