---
id: "gender"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: true
categories: ["pii", "persons"]
langs: ["common"]
quality: 30
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/gender"
---

# Gender (`gender`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

Gender flag and/or any other identification value

- Personal data (PII): yes
- Categories: Personally identifiable information (pii), Person related (persons)
- Countries: global
- Languages: Common to most languages (common)
- Classification: categorical

## Mappings

- cdm: `means.demographic.gender`
- dpv: `pd:Gender`
- fta: `GENDER.TEXT_<LANGUAGE>`, `GENDER.TEXT_JA`, `GENDER.TEXT_ZH`
- schema_org: `gender`
- sherlock: `gender`, `sex`

## Metacrafter rules

1 rules: 1 match the field name, 0 match values.

- `genderbyknown` (field, `pii/pii.yaml`)

## Supported by tools

- `alteryxdesignercloud`
- `collibra`
- `csvdetective`
- `databricks`
- `datahub`
- `doduo`
- `fta`
- `ibmknowledgecatalog`
- `metacrafter`
- `metacrafterpro`
- `metadata-guardian`
- `piicatcher`
- `sato`
- `sherlock`
- `snowflake`
- `sqldatacatalog`
- `talend`

## Quality

Score 30/100. Missing: longer description, regexp, examples, negative example, source link, translation.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/gender.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/persons/gender.yaml>