Hello everyone,
Nowadays there is much going on about LGBT+. Sensibility concerning gender and sexual orientation are on the ride. I would like to ask you how you deal with gender while collecting data through online questionnaire.
Are you asking biological gender at birth?
Are you giving as options male/female/other/not declare?
Are you giving as options male/female/not binary?
Can anyone suggest a better way?
And what about methodology? Are you including in the analysis? I recently collected a sample of around 5000 cases for a researc about mental health. Only about 20 claimed themselves as "else". How would you deal with it?
Excluding them from your analysis?
Including even if the sample is definitely not consistent enough?
Thanks in advance. Any input is very much welcome!
Recomiendo dar opciones: hombre / mujer / otro / no declarar? , así se incluyen a todos y todas
Ladan Rahbari, the problem is that in my sample last time I got very few people who did not defined themselves as male or female. It is going to be very complicated to include the in the analysis. In my topic, for what I see, researchers tend to recruit them when planning to analyse mental health among people with no-binary gender.
Michael Uebel, I am planning to collec thousands of cases. An open question would take forever to be recoded unfortunately.
I added both, sex and gender. The differences between male and female sexes are anatomical and physiological. "Sex" tends to relate to biological differences. Gender (WHO definition) refers to the socially constructed characteristics of women and man, such as norms, roles, and relationships of and between groups pf women and men. The first one has two options, the second one could have any as they would like to define themselves, so, yo can add the most used "genders" and add the other option (and ask what it is). So, yo can analyse your data by sex or gender and have different results.
This report put together a series of helpful best practices for asking about sex, gender, and sexual orientation. I've used it for most similar projects.
https://williamsinstitute.law.ucla.edu/wp-content/uploads/geniuss-report-sep-2014.pdf
I include both sex and gender. It is important to acknowledge sense of self and biology as both contribute to how one interacts with their environment. As Ladan Rahbari stated it is important to provide as many options as possible including "other" or "prefer not to say". I think it is important to present all data collected for a study so long as their responses are complete. In this case I would present the data from the 20 participants who chose not to identify their sex or gender as a separate category. If these responses differ significantly from those who did identify it could make for an interesting discussion in any publication or presentation you disseminate. Discussion points could include confusion, shame or self-prejudice based on ones sex or gender identity that would cause someone to not want to divulge that information in a study.
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