This column indicates the sex (male or female) assigned to an individual at birth. This field can also be associated with a room such as a bathroom or dormitory room.

Gender codes are defined on the Maintain Table Values window and stored in the Table Details table. Choose Column Name of gender. Once codes are defined, they can be selected from a drop-down list.

An individual's sex at birth can also be updated:

• In J1 Web on the Person Information Details page, Biograph page. Updates to gender made in J1 Web are reflected in the Desktop  and vice versa.
• When a campus portal user completes the FormFlow Student Identity Update form. The form collects sex at birth, legal sex, gender identity, and preferred personal pronoun information. Information collected using the form is immediately saved to J1 Web and Desktop without requirement the internet submissions process and approval. For more information, see the Student Identity Update Form help topic.

Only M or F values are used in the Personnel IPEDS Reports.

This field was previously the labeled "Gender. "

For more information on specifying the gender of a specific room, see Room Gender.

To generate correct data for these reports, you must map each of your system-defined gender codes to the pre-defined IPEDS gender codes. To perform this task:

1.    Go to the Maintain Table Values window OR right-click the Gender field  (Review Internet Submission window | Biograph tab | Master subtab) and select Maintenance Screen.

2.    Ensure the Column Name is Gender.

3.    Enter one of the following IPEDS Gender Codes (not the description) into the Alternate Value 1 column for each system-defined code.

IPEDS Gender Code	Description
M	Male
F	Female
N	Not Reported