Identifying and definitional attributes | |
Metadata item type: | Data Element Concept |
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METEOR identifier: | 635978 |
Registration status: | Health, Superseded 15/02/2022 |
Definition: | The way in which a person identifies their masculine or feminine characteristics. A person'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. |
Person—gender
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: | Gender |
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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. |
Data element concept attributes
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. Attorney-General's Department 2015. Australian Government Guidelines on the Recognition of Sex and Gender. Viewed 26 July 2016. |
Relational attributes
Related metadata references: | Supersedes Person—gender Indigenous, Standard 05/09/2014 Has been superseded by Person—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 |
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Data Elements implementing this Data Element Concept: | Person—gender, code X Health, Superseded 15/02/2022 Person—gender, text X[X(99)] Health, Superseded 15/02/2022 |