Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element Concept |
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METEOR identifier: | 269716 |
Registration status: | Children and Families, Standard 22/11/2016 Commonwealth Department of Health, Retired 19/10/2023 Community Services (retired), Standard 01/03/2005 Disability, Standard 07/10/2014 Early Childhood, Superseded 24/07/2018 Health, Superseded 11/05/2017 Homelessness, Superseded 10/08/2018 Housing assistance, Standard 10/02/2006 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 01/11/2012 Indigenous, Superseded 16/10/2017 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 09/01/2018 WA Health, Standard 19/03/2015 Youth Justice, Superseded 23/08/2022 |
Definition: | Sex is the biological distinction between male and female. Where there is an inconsistency between anatomical and chromosomal characteristics, sex is based on anatomical characteristics. |
Context: | Sex is a core metadata item in a wide range of social, labour and demographic statistics. |
Person—sex
Data Element Concept Attributes
Object Class attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
Object class: | Person |
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Definition: | A human being. |
Collection and usage attributes | |
Comments: | Prior to 13 March 2018, the definition of the ‘Person’ Object class was ‘A human being, whether man, woman or child’. From 13 March 2018, the definition was edited by removing the words ‘…whether man, woman or child’ so that a person is defined as ‘A human being’. This amendment was undertaken to align the definition of a person with the Australian Government Guidelines on the Recognition of Sex and Gender and the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS) Standard for Sex and Gender Variables, which recognise that there are sex and gender types that are not exclusively male or female. |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Institute of Health and Welfare |
Origin: | Macquarie University 2003. The Macquarie Dictionary 3rd ed. Sydney: The Macquarie Library Pty. Ltd |
Reference documents: | Attorney-General's Department 2015. Australian Government Guidelines on the Recognition of Sex and Gender. Viewed 26 July 2016, https://www.ag.gov.au/Publications/Pages/ ABS (Australian Bureau of Statistics) 2016. Standard for Sex and Gender Variables, 2016. ABS Cat. no. 1200.0.55.012. Canberra: ABS. Viewed 26 July 2016, http://abs.gov.au/AUSSTATS/[email protected]/ |
Property attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes
Property: | Sex |
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Definition: | The biological distinction between male and female. |
Property group: | Demographic/social/cultural characteristics |
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Youth Justice Administrators (AYJA) |
Origin: | Australian Bureau of Statistics 1999. Standards for Social, Labour and Demographic Variables Demographic Variables, Sex
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Data element concept attributes
Source and reference attributes | |
Submitting organisation: | Australian Youth Justice Administrators (AYJA) |
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Relational attributes
Related metadata references: | Supersedes Person—sex (housing assistance) Housing assistance, Superseded 10/02/2006 Has been superseded by Person—sex Early Childhood, Standard 24/07/2018 Health, Superseded 15/02/2022 Homelessness, Standard 10/08/2018 Indigenous, Superseded 27/08/2023 Tasmanian Health, Standard 09/01/2018 Youth Justice, Superseded 23/08/2022 |
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Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept: | Person—sex, code A WA Health, Standard 19/03/2015 Person—sex, code A Commonwealth Department of Health, Retired 19/10/2023 Person—sex, code N Community Services (retired), Superseded 31/08/2005 Health, Superseded 04/05/2005 Person—sex, code N Children and Families, Standard 22/11/2016 Community Services (retired), Standard 25/08/2005 Disability, Standard 07/10/2014 Early Childhood, Superseded 24/07/2018 Health, Superseded 11/05/2017 Homelessness, Superseded 10/08/2018 Housing assistance, Standard 10/02/2006 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 01/11/2012 Indigenous, Superseded 16/10/2017 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 Youth Justice, Superseded 23/08/2022 Person—sex, Tasmanian code A Tasmanian Health, Superseded 10/01/2018 |