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Student Alternative 2021/22 - Sex identifier

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Student Alternative 2021/22

Fields required from institutions in All fields

Sex identifier


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valid entries
Typefield
Short nameSEXID
Description

This field records the sex of the student.

Applicable toEngland
Coverage

Compulsory for all students.

Valid entries and labels
CodeLabel
1Male
2Female
3Other
Notes

Providers should not use *J data to complete this field due to the UCAS definitions not aligning to the HESA SEXID field. It is expected that providers survey their students to gather this information.

Providers are expected to reconfirm this information with the student on at least an annual basis. If you are unable to provide this information for one or more records, please contact Liaison.

Advance HE has a number of resources relating to gathering information across the protected characteristics covered by the Equality Act 2010. If you have any further queries regarding equality monitoring, please view https://www.advance-he.ac.uk/.

HESA will not be including a 'prefer not to say' option.

Quality rules
Quality rules to follow
Reason required To monitor equal opportunities issues in higher education.
Part of
Field length1
Minimum occurrences0
Maximum occurrences1
Schema components
Element: SEXID
OwnerAdvance HE
Version1.1
Date modified2021-12-23
Change management notesGuidance updated to cover exceptional cases where the data is unavailable and minimum occurrences has been updated from 1 to 0.

Contact Liaison by email or on +44 (0)1242 388 531.