HESA Student Record 2008/09 - Gender
HESA Student Record 2008/09Fields required from institutions in EnglandGender | return to field list |
| Short name | GENDER | ||||||
| Type | field | ||||||
| Description |
This field identifies the gender of the student. | ||||||
| Applicable to | England | ||||||
| Coverage | All students | ||||||
| Base data type | GENDERCodeType | ||||||
| Field length | 1 | ||||||
| Part of | |||||||
| Minimum occurrences | 1 | ||||||
| Maximum occurrences | 1 | ||||||
| Reason required |
To permit gender-based analysis and also to facilitate record linkage across collections. | ||||||
| Notes |
This field is identical to the Student.GENDER field in the Student record. The coding frame for this field is consistent with the MIAP Common Data Definitions (CDD) coding frame. Code 9 'Indeterminate' means unable to be classified as either male or female. It should not be used as a substitute or proxy for 'Not known' This information is available from UCAS and GTTR. | ||||||
| Owner | HESA | ||||||
| Version | 1.0 | ||||||
| Schema components |
Element: GENDER
Data type: GENDERCodeContentType | ||||||
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