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Definition

The binary gender label that most closely aligns with an individual's overall sense of gender.

Representation

Description

Note: While the department recognises that an individual's gender relates to their deeply held internal and individual sense of gender, is not always exclusively male or female and may or may not correspond to their sex assigned at birth, due to technical limitations the current data collection is limited to responses of 'Male' or 'Female', as is reflected in this Value Domain.

Values

Value Meaning Start Date End Date
Permissible Values Male Indicates the participant identifies or most closely identifies as male.
Female Indicates the participant identifies or most closely identifies as female.

Related content

Relation Count
Data Elements implementing this Value Domain 1