BS ISO/IEC 5218:2004

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Information technology. Codes for the representation of human sexes

Published By	Publication Date	Number of Pages
BSI	2004	26

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Description

This International Standard specifies a uniform representation of human sexes for the interchange of information. It is intended to

reduce the time required to record and/or format the representation of sexes and transmit the corresponding data;
improve clarity and accuracy of interchange;
minimize the amount of human intervention required for communicating the representation of sexes; and
reduce costs.

This International Standard does not prescribe file sequences, storage media, programming languages, or other features of information processing to be used in its implementation.

This International Standard meets the requirements of most applications that need to code human sexes. It does not provide codes for sexes that may be required in specific medical and scientific applications or in applications that need to code sex information other than for human beings.

This International Standard does not supplant national standards for coding sexes that are designed based upon codes derived from names of sexes in the various languages (for example “M” for “male” and “F” for “female” in the English language). It provides a numeric code that is independent of language-derived codes and as such is intended to provide a common basis for the international exchange of information containing human sex data elements.

Additional information

Status	Withdrawn
Title	Information technology. Codes for the representation of human sexes
Replaces	BS 5249-2:1978
Publisher	BSI
Committee	IST/40
Pages	26
Publication Date	2004-07-20
Withdrawn Date	2022-08-23
Replaced By	BS ISO/IEC 5218:2022
ISBN	0 580 44103 2
Standard Number	BS ISO/IEC 5218:2004
Identical National Standard Of	ISO/IEC 5218:2004
Descriptors	Women, Men, Coded representation, Data codes, Information exchange, Data processing, Data representation
ICS Codes	35.040.50 - Automatic identification and data capture techniques

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