Alternative Gender Measures Survey

The Alternative Gender Measures Survey (AGMS) was conducted on Amazon Mechanical Turk in November 2014 to pilot measures as part of a proposal for a new sex and gender module in the General Social Survey (GSS). In order to test the measures in a realistic context, a six-item sex and gender module was embedded in a questionnaire designed to approximate conventional questionnaires in the social sciences. Most of the items were drawn from the GSS and have the same question wording and variable names. <br><br>The AGMS sex and gender module includes: a pair of feminine and masculine scales asked from the first-order (how do you see yourself?) perspective, a pair of feminine and masculine scales asked from the third-order (how do most people see you?) perspective, and a two-step categorical measurement of sex at birth and current gender identity. This two-step approach is the same one adopted by the GSS for its 2018 survey.