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Using sex and gender in survey adjustment

@article{Kennedy2020UsingSA,
  title={Using sex and gender in survey adjustment},
  author={Lauren Kennedy and Katharine Khanna and Daniel P. Simpson and Andrew Gelman and Yajun Jia and Julien O. Teitler},
  journal={arXiv: Applications},
  year={2020}
}
Accounting for sex and gender characteristics is a complex, structural challenge in social science research. While other methodology papers consider issues surrounding appropriate measurement, we consider how gender and sex impact adjustments for non-response patterns in sampling and survey estimates. We consider the problem of survey adjustment arising from the recent push toward measuring sex or gender as a non-binary construct. This is challenging not only in that response categories differ… 
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