A gender survey question is the question in a survey asking for the respondent to report their gender. In questionnaire construction the survey designer may make this an open-ended question or multiple choice.
In 2018 the General Social Survey began releasing data on respondents' self-identified gender.
Historically surveys have only offered options for respondents to indicate being either male or female. More inclusive surveys may offer more options.
Some respondents will not want to indicate being either male or female and will wish for additional options.
Sex and gender are important demographic characteristics to understand in social research, but for information on these things to be meaningful, researchers must be thoughtful in collecting the data.
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2021 research application
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2021 hospital registration form
References
- Carian, Emily K. (15 May 2019). "More Inclusive Gender Questions Added to the General Social Survey". The Clayman Institute for Gender Research. Stanford University.
- ^ Harrison, Jack; Grant, Jaime; Herman, Jody L. (1 April 2012). "A Gender Not Listed Here: Genderqueers, Gender Rebels, and OtherWise in the National Transgender Discrimination Survey". LGBTQ Public Policy Journal at the Harvard Kennedy School. 2 (1): 13.
- Spiel, Katta; Haimson, Oliver; Lottridge, Danielle (August 2019). "How to do better with gender on surveys: A guide for HCI researchers | ACM Interactions". ACM Interactions. XXVI (4). Association for Computing Machinery: 62. doi:10.1145/3338283. hdl:2027.42/154050. S2CID 195776950.
- Westbrook, Laurel; Saperstein, Aliya (10 July 2015). "New Categories Are Not Enough". Gender & Society. 29 (4): 534–560. doi:10.1177/0891243215584758. S2CID 85520200.
Further consideration
- Fonseca, Sabrina (4 September 2020). "Designing forms for gender diversity and inclusion". Medium.
External links
- https://genders.wtf/ - a collection of gender survey questions intended to be humorous