A new survey has found that gay people make up just 1.5 percent of the British population, a figure which has been greeted with skepticism. When civil partnerships were introduced the government said homosexuals made up between five and seven percent of the U.K. population. Another widely-quoted figure, 10 percent, came from Alfred Kinsey's research. The survey question itself, which pertained to sexual identity, might have been too narrow, said Julia Ericksen, a professor at Temple. There are two other elements to sexual orientation: sexual behavior and sexual attraction. "If you really want to get a good grasp of same gender behavior, you really have to ask all those questions and they didn't do that," she says. "It's not surprising that they got a low figure."