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Participant: Gender, Label

Definition

The way in which a given participant identifies their masculine or feminine characteristics, as represented by the binary label most closely related to the individual's sense of gender. An individual's gender relates to their deeply held internal and individual sense of gender and is not always exclusively male or female. It may or may not correspond to their sex assigned at birth.

Components

Data Element (this item)
Participant: Gender, Label

Representation

This representation is based on the value domain for this data element, more information is available at " Gender label ".
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.

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Output in Derivations 0
Inclusion in Data Set Specifications 0
Inclusion in Data Distributions 4
Use within a Question 0
As a numerator in an Indicator 0
As a denominator in an Indicator 0
As a disaggregation in an Indicator 32