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Sex, gender, sexual orientation standards

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  • Families, households and marital status
  • Sexual orientation
  • Gender
  • Sex

Families, households and marital status

  • Legal marital status
  • Marital status
  • Census family type
  • Economic family type
  • Census family status, variant with children
  • Economic family status
  • Household living arrangements
  • Stepfamily status
  • Census family structure (for census family)
  • Economic family structure (for economic family)
  • Family size (for economic family)
  • Household type
  • Household type, multigenerational variant

Sexual orientation

  • Gender diversity status of marriage or common-law union
  • Gender diversity status of marriage or common-law union, variant
  • Opposite- or same-sex married spouse or common-law partner
  • Common-law status
  • Relationship structure
  • Gender diversity status of couple family
  • Sexual orientation, LGBTQ2+ status
  • Type of union of couple

Gender

  • Cisgender, transgender and non-binary
  • Gender diversity status
  • Gender diversity status, variant
  • Opposite- or same-sex status

Sex

  • Sex at birth
  • Sex at birth, variant
  • Sex of reference person in a family
  • Sex of reference person of lone-parent family
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Date modified:
2022-10-27

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