Guidelines for gathering data on gender

Since the 18th of September 2017, the School of Psychology has used the following guidelines for gathering data on participants’ gender:

The ideal situation is to provide a completely open ended question:

 

Gender: _______________________

 

 

However this is not always practical. Therefore, at a minimum you should include the following options:

 

I identify my gender as:

 

Female

 

Male

 

Trans*

 

Gender Variant/Non-conforming

 

Not listed: ____________________

 

Prefer not to say

 

 

Once you have collected demographic information, it is up to you how you collapse across any categories in reporting the data, but you should provide respondents with the opportunity to answer honestly and comfortably. If it’s not a crucial part of your data analysis plan, you should consider refraining from gathering data on gender altogether.