Can I use the instructions to determine sex of individual?
In column 3, where it says "Occupation: and in case of Females, Spinster, Married, Woman or Widow." Is that enough specificity to say the person is a male if the value in the field IS NOT "Spinster" or "Married" or "Woman" or "Widow"? And to say the person is female if it does contain one of these values?
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@Ken_Cluff Woman, Widow, and even Spinster are terms you can use to specify the sex of a woman. I wouldn't use job descriptions to specify for a man.
Link the batch info, so we can look at it and help you search through the index guidelines. Check your field instructions for "sex". It will be more specific of what it will allow when it comes to indexing the sex of the individual. Most of the index guides and field instructions will tell you NOT to specify sex based on the name of an individual or job description. Other than that, for a woman, I believe you CAN specify her sex based on "Woman, Widow, and Spinster." I would leave the sex <blank> otherwise.
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Very interesting question. The column header is
Occupation: And in the case of Females, Spinster, Married Woman, or Widow.
I think you should be able to discern sex from "other evidence in the language" in this case. If they aren't listed with one of those categories of female, then they are male.
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This was my thinking.
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