Classification of gender composition of couple (for couple), variant

Usage

The Classification of gender composition of couple (for couple), variant can only be used when gender is classified as: man+ and woman+.

This note should be included whenever the two-category gender variable is used: Given that the non-binary population is small, data aggregation to a two-category gender variable is sometimes necessary for confidentiality and data quality reasons. In these cases, individuals in the category "non-binary persons" are randomly recoded into the other two gender categories and are denoted by the "+" symbol.

In analytical products, using "men" and "women" without the "+" symbol, rather than "men+" and "women+", in the main text is preferred to improve readability and avoid giving the impression that "men+" and "women+" are part of a new standardized naming convention for the people represented by these categories, when no such naming convention has been established.