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Question 2What is your sex?
How to answer
Tick one box only.
Why this question is asked
This question provides important basic information about the population and is used extensively along with other data (for example, age and marital status) to produce statistics at national, regional and local level and to allocate public money to local authorities, health authorities and other community projects. By combining sex with age, the census provides a basis for measuring changes in society and calculating rates of mortality, fertility, marriage and divorce.
More questions?
I am transgender or transsexual. Which option should I select?
If you are transgender or transsexual, please select the option for the sex that you identify yourself as. You can select either ‘male’ or ‘female’, whichever you believe is correct, irrespective of the details recorded on your birth certificate. You do not need to have a Gender Recognition Certificate.
If you are answering for someone who is transgender or transsexual then where possible you should ask them how they want to be identified. If they are away, you should select the sex you think they would wish to be identified as. You can select either ‘male’ or ‘female’, irrespective of the details recorded on their birth certificate. You do not need to know if they have a Gender Recognition Certificate.
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