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Person—sex/gender, Tasmanian code A

Identifying and definitional attributes

Metadata item type:Help on this termData Element
Short name:Help on this termSex/gender
METEOR identifier:Help on this term723480
Registration status:Help on this term
  • Tasmanian Health, Standard 19/06/2020
Definition:Help on this term

The identification of a person as either male, female or not exclusively male or female, as represented by a code.

Data Element Concept:Person—sex/gender

Data element attributes

Collection and usage attributes

Collection methods:Help on this term

The term 'sex' refers to a person's biological characteristics. A person's sex is usually described as being either male or female; some people may have both male and female characteristics, or neither male nor female characteristics, or other sexual characteristics.

Sex is assigned at birth and is relatively fixed. However, a person's sex may change during their lifetime as a result of procedures commonly referred to as sex change, gender reassignment, gender affirmation, transsexual surgery, transgender reassignment or sexual reassignment. Throughout this process, which may be over a considerable period of time, sex may be recorded as either male, female or other.

In general, both sex and gender should not be collected in a single collection instrument. The Australian Government Guidelines on the Recognition of Sex and Gender recommends the preferred Australian Government approach of collecting and using gender information, with sex only being collected where there is a legitimate need to know the biological characteristics of the target population. It should be recognised that in some cases an individual may choose to report their gender when sex is being requested.

Organisations should ensure when they collect sex and/or gender information they use the correct terminology for the information they are seeking. Male and female are predominantly associated with the set of biological attributes that define the different types of sexes, while masculine and feminine characteristics are predominantly associated with the set of factors that make up gender. However, it should be recognised that male/female and masculine/feminine are sometimes used interchangeably to refer to sex and/or gender.

CODE O     Other

Should be used for babies for whom sex has not been determined for whatever reason.

Other refers to any person who does not exclusively identify as either male or female. Terms such as 'indeterminate', 'intersex', 'non-binary', and 'unspecified' are variously used to describe the 'Other' category of sex/gender.

CODE N     Not stated/inadequately described

Is not to be used on primary collection forms. It is primarily for use in administrative collections when transferring data from data sets where the item has not been collected.

Source and reference attributes

Submitting organisation:Help on this term

Department of Health Tasmania

Reference documents:Help on this term

Australian Bureau of Statistics 2016. Standard for Sex and Gender Variables (Cat. no. 1200.0.55.012). Viewed 26 July 2016.

Justice and Related Legislation (Marriage and Gender Amendments) Act 2019 https://www.legislation.tas.gov.au/view/whole/html/asmade/act-2019-007

Relational attributes

Related metadata references:Help on this term
Is used in the formation of Episode of admitted patient care—diagnosis related group, code (AR-DRG v 10.0) ANNA
  • Tasmanian Health, Standard 19/06/2020
Supersedes Person—sex, Tasmanian code A
  • Tasmanian Health, Superseded 19/06/2020
Implementation in Data Set Specifications:Help on this term
All attributes +

Person related data elements (TDLU) clusterTasmanian Health, Standard 18/05/2021

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2020

Implementation end date: 30/06/2021


Tasmanian Demographics Data Set - 2020Tasmanian Health, Standard 15/06/2020

DSS specific attributes +

Implementation start date: 01/07/2020

Implementation end date: 30/06/2021


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