10. Sex: male or female?

2. Instructions for answering questions :

a. Sex
The information on a person's sex is needed for social analysis that allows us to identify gaps between the sexes, and trace changes that occur in these gaps.
Question 3.20 - This person is ____:

- There is no need to ask this question about the person you are interviewing.
- When asking about the rest of the household's members, you must explicitly ask about sex and not conclude what the person's sex is, solely based on their name. With many names it is impossible to tell whether they belong to a male or a female. For example: Rotem, Noam, Islam, Manar, etc.