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This report recommends that the National Institutes of Health (NIH) adopt new practices for collecting data on sex, gender, and sexual orientation — including collecting gender data by default, and not conflating gender with sex as a biological variable. The report recommends standardized language to be used in survey questions that ask about a respondent’s sex, gender identity, and sexual orientation. Better measurements will improve data quality, as well as the NIH’s ability to identify LGBTQI+ populations and understand the challenges they face.
Resource Details
- Population: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, and Queer Persons
- Topics of Practice: Policy Change/ Development
- Outcomes of Interest: Improve Data Infrastructure
- Level of Evidence: Emerging
- Tools or Materials Included in Resource: No
- Social Determinants of Health: Social and Community Context
- Outside of US: No