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. |
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| Data Type | String |
| Format | AAAA[AA] |
| Maximum character length | 6 |
Values
| Value | Meaning | Start Date | End Date | |
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| 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 |
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| Data Elements implementing this Value Domain | 1 |