Sex

Variable Description

Name

moh_can_sex_code ^en-NZ

Label

Sex ^en-NZ

Description

The biological sex of the healthcare user.

Notes: The term ‘sex’ refers to the biological differences between males and females, while the term ‘gender’ refers to a person's social role (masculine or feminine). Since September 2008, sex has been automatically populated at the time a cancer event is created. For cancer events created manually, a copy of the current sex from the NHI is used. For cancer events created from National Minimum Data Set (NMDS) or Mortality records, the sex from the source record is used.

^en-NZ

This variable is not part of a dataset.