Data supporting a University of Southampton doctoral thesis "Sex/Gender Differences in Autistic Restricted and Repetitive Behaviours and Interests"

Data supporting a University of Southampton doctoral thesis "Sex/Gender Differences in Autistic Restricted and Repetitive Behaviours and Interests". Data was collected vis MS Forms online surveys. Excel required to view raw dataset. Edited Excel dataset also available with incomplete data removed and data coded as per individual outcome measures. Sub-scores for each outcome measure also calculated via formulas for all relevant outcome measures. SPSS dataset provided for data pertaining to Sex, Diagnosis, RBQ-2A Total, RBQ-2A Repetitive Sensory Motor (RSM), RBQ-2A Insistence on Sameness (IS), CATQ Total, CATQ Assimilation, CATQ Masking, CATQ Compensation, ASSERT Autistic Traits, Age, and Diagnosis vs Self-Identifying Autistic data only. This dataset contains: - consent confirmations - ethnicity - gender - biological sex - diagnosis status - age of diagnosis, who gave diagnosis, how many times assessed (if applicable) - self-identification of autism (yes or no) - experience of autism assessment (yes or no), how many times assessed, outcome of assessment, currently on a waiting list for assessment, age of first assessment (if applicable) - responses on ASSERT outcome measure - responses on CAT-Q outcome measure - responses on RBQ-2A outcome measure - open-responses to 'are there any other restricted interest you feel you have that have not already been mentioned?' - open-responses to 'are there any other repetitive behaviours you feel you have that have not already been mentioned?' - responses on ASA-A outcome measure