Explore years of The Plural Census results answers in one place. Filter by group, compare results side by side, and see how the Dissociative Identity Disorder, Other Specified Dissociative Disorder, and Plural community has changed over time. Free, interactive, and built by the Plural community for the Plural community, because nothing about us, without us.
For a full explanation of how to use this tool and all its features, please read our guide below it. This tool is extensive, so it works best on a PC or laptop. It is mobile friendly, but some result options are not visible on all phones.
The Plural Census Explorer Tool:
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Explore All the Annual Plural Census Results with this Tool
A short, friendly guide. No experience needed.
This tool lets you explore the answers shared in the Plural Census. Every year, members of the Plural community fill it in, and this tool gathers all of those answers in one place.
You can look at a single year or all years at once, see how answers have changed over time, and zoom in on specific groups. It is made for anyone to use. You do not need to be a researcher.
No names are shown anywhere. Open-text answers, the ones typed in freely, are kept private and are not shown here.
The census also asks whether you give permission for your answers to be used. In this tool, anyone who answered no is still counted in how many took the census, the number shown next to each year, but their answers are left out of every bar, percentage, and chart.
Our earlier published reports counted those answers in. This tool leaves them out, so a few of the numbers here may be slightly different from the figures we published before.
Tap a section to open it.
Everything at a glance
A quick map of the tool. Each number marks one part of the screen.
Hover over a number to see what that part does.
- Years. See one year, or All years for everyone.
- Compare two groups. Put two groups side by side.
- Search. Jump to a question by typing.
- Add filter. Narrow the data to a group.
- Categories and Favorites. Topics on the left. Starred questions sit in Favorites.
- A question. Click a question to open it.
- Question type and counts. The type of question, and how many answered each year.
- Copy link. Copy a link straight to this question.
- Sort and find answers. Order answers by size or A to Z, or search them.
- Chart views. Switch between bars, pie, and trend.
- The answers. Each answer, with its count and percentage.
The main parts
Here is what you will see, and what each part does.
The years. Choose a single year to see just that year, or choose All years to see everyone at once.
Search. Type a few words to jump straight to a question, without scrolling.
Compare two groups. Leave the switch off for the normal view. Turn it on to place two groups side by side and see how their answers differ. Turn it off again to go back, which also brings back the pie and trend charts.
Categories. Questions are sorted into topics. Click a topic to open its questions.
The star. Click the star on a question to save it to Favorites, so it is easy to find again.
What the question labels mean
Every question has a small colored label. It tells you how the question was asked.
Single choice Only one answer could be picked. The percentages add up to about 100.
Multiple answers More than one answer could be picked. Because of this, the percentages can add up to more than 100. That is normal here, not a mistake.
Number The answer is a typed number, like a year or an age.
Matrix A grid question, where each row has its own set of choices.
Reading the answers
Three ways to see the data
Bars. The normal view, with one bar per answer.
Pie. The same answers shown as slices of a circle, handy for seeing the whole at a glance.
Trend. Shows how an answer has changed across the years. This button only appears when there is more than one year to compare.
Looking closer: filters and compare
Add filter. This narrows the data down to a specific group. For example, you could look only at those who answered a certain way to another question.
Compare two groups. Turn on the switch, then set up Group A and Group B using Add filter. The tool shows the two groups next to each other so you can see how they differ.
Show difference. While comparing, tick this box to add a small tag to each answer. The tag shows the gap between the two groups.
What does pp mean?
When you compare two groups, you will see small tags like +4 pp or -4 pp. The letters pp are short for percentage points. It is simply the gap between two percentages.
Here is an example. Say one group is at 80% and the other is at 84%. The gap between them is 4 percentage points. The higher group shows +4 pp, and the lower group shows -4 pp.
A plus sign means that group is higher than the other one. A minus sign means it is lower.
We say percentage points, and not percent, because it is the clearest way to describe the gap between two percentages.
Sharing what you find
Copy link. Under each question there is a Copy link button. It copies a link that goes straight to that question. Paste it into a message, a post, or an email to send someone to exactly what you were looking at. If you have a year, a filter, or compare turned on, the link remembers those too.
Try it yourself
Here is a short walk-through. Follow along in the tool below.
- On the left, click the topic Personal Information. You can also type transgender into the search box.
- Find the question Are you transgender/nonbinary? and click the row to open it.
- Look at the bars. The top one shows how many answered that they do identify as transgender or nonbinary, with the count and the percentage.
- Now click the Trend button (the little line) at the top right of the question. You will see how that answer changed across 2024, 2025, and 2026.
- That is it. You just read a result and saw how it changed over time.
Want to go further? Turn on Compare two groups, then use Add filter on each side to set up two groups and see how their answers compare.
Voices from the Plural Census
In their own words
Each year the Plural Census asks our community a wide range of questions. Below are a few of the open, write-in ones, with real, unedited answers. Pick a question and read what Plurals said, in their own words.
& Tap any question to hear a real voice
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