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Retired 19/10/2023 Community Services (retired), Standard 01/03/2005 Disability, Standard 07/10/2014 Early Childhood, Superseded 24/07/2018 Health, Superseded 11/05/2017 Homelessness, Superseded 10/08/2018 Housing assistance, Standard 10/02/2006 Independent Hospital Pricing Authority, Standard 01/11/2012 Indigenous, Superseded 16/10/2017 National Health Performance Authority (retired), Retired 01/07/2016 Tasmanian Health, Superseded 09/01/2018 WA Health, Standard 19/03/2015 Youth Justice, Superseded 23/08/2022 |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. |