Gender
Property Attributes
Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Property |
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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Registration status: | Health, Superseded 15/02/2022 |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 |
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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Related metadata references: | Supersedes Gender Indigenous, Standard 05/09/2014 Has been superseded by Gender Aged Care, Standard 30/06/2023 Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Qualified 17/01/2024 Australian Teacher Workforce Data Oversight Board, Standard 30/08/2022 Health, Standard 15/02/2022 |
Data Element Concepts implementing this property: | Person—gender Health, Superseded 15/02/2022 |