Gender and sex variables and classifications

Gender and sex variables and classifications With the recent additions of gender identity and gender expression to the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code as well as some sources of administrative data changing from sex to gender, it is necessary to distinguish the concepts of sex and gender within the National Statistical System. In response, Statistics Canada has released a revised variable, 'sex of person', a new variable, 'gender of person' and their related classifications. 2022-02-21 Statistics Canada STATCAN.infostats-infostats.STATCAN@canada.ca PersonsClassificationClassification codesClassification systemsGender of PersonSex of person Gender of personHTML https://www23.statcan.gc.ca/imdb/p3Var.pl?Function=DECI&Id=463349 Gender of personHTML https://www23.statcan.gc.ca/imdb/p3Var_f.pl?Function=DECI&Id=463349 Gender of person CSV https://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/statistical-programs/document/gender-variables-V1-eng.csv Gender of personCSV https://www.statcan.gc.ca/fra/programmes-statistiques/document/variable-genre-V1-fra.csv Sex of personHTML https://www23.statcan.gc.ca/imdb/p3Var.pl?Function=DECI&Id=467214 Sex of personHTML https://www23.statcan.gc.ca/imdb/p3Var_f.pl?Function=DECI&Id=467214 Sex of personCSV https://www.statcan.gc.ca/eng/statistical-programs/document/sex-variables-V1-eng.csv Sex of personCSV https://www.statcan.gc.ca/fra/programmes-statistiques/document/variable-sexe-V1-fra.csv

With the recent additions of gender identity and gender expression to the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code as well as some sources of administrative data changing from sex to gender, it is necessary to distinguish the concepts of sex and gender within the National Statistical System. In response, Statistics Canada has released a revised variable, 'sex of person', a new variable, 'gender of person' and their related classifications.

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