Data scientists grapple with how to ask, ‘what’s your gender?’
Right now, pollsters, academics, statisticians—anyone who cares about gathering good data—are finding that one of the trickiest questions to get right is this: “What’s your gender?" In 2018, the Pew Research Center asked in a survey whether forms should include options other than “man" and “woman" for people who don’t identify as either. “We didn’t want to exclude anybody who is nonbinary," said Ashley Amaya, a senior survey methodologist at the Pew Research Center. The National Crime Victimization Survey, one of the first government surveys to ask a question on gender identity, beginning in 2016, asked whether people are male, female or transgender. For example, in 2021 the Census Bureau’s experimental Household Pulse Survey asked two questions: “What sex were you assigned at birth on your original birth certificate?"
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