Gender

Identifying and definitional attributes
Metadata item type:	Property
METEOR identifier:	635957
Registration status:	Health, Superseded 15/02/2022
Definition:	The way in which an individual identifies their masculine or feminine characteristics. 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.
Property group:	Demographic/social/cultural characteristics

Source and reference attributes
Submitting organisation:	Australian Institute of Health and Welfare
Origin:	Australian Bureau of Statistics 2016. Standard for Sex and Gender Variables (Cat. no. 1200.0.55.012). Viewed 26 July 2016.
Relational attributes
Related metadata references:	Supersedes Gender Community Services (retired), Not progressed 23/01/2018 Health, Incomplete 02/07/2013 Indigenous, Standard 05/09/2014 Has been superseded by Gender Health, Standard 15/02/2022
Data Element Concepts implementing this property:	Person—gender ACT Health (retired), Candidate 02/01/2019 Health, Superseded 15/02/2022