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# Gender Contacts by Critical Issue

Shows the count of contacts by gender for each critical issue from Quarterly Effort data.

#### Location

This panel appears on the following dashboards:

* [Contacts by Critical Issues](/analyze/impact-dashboards/contacts-by-critical-issues.md)

#### Modules Included

* Quarterly Efforts (Grand Challenge Totals)

#### Filters

**Applied Filters**

* **Viewable records** — Only Quarterly Effort records the current user has permission to view are included.

**Non-Applicable Filters**

* **Units** — Quarterly Efforts do not directly reference Extension units. This filter is offered on the dashboard's filter bar, but applying it replaces the chart with the message "This chart cannot be filtered by the following filters: Units."
* **Sites** — Quarterly Efforts do not have a site field.
* **Interventions** — Quarterly Efforts do not have an intervention field.
* **Projects** — Quarterly Efforts do not have a project field.
* **Action Plans** — Quarterly Efforts do not have an action plan field.
* **Settings** — Quarterly Efforts do not have a setting field.
* **Verified** — Quarterly Efforts do not have a verification status field.
* **Session Date Range** — Quarterly Efforts do not have session occurrences.
* **Primary Curriculum** — Quarterly Efforts do not have a curriculum field.
* **Collaborator** — Quarterly Efforts do not have collaborators.

#### Calculations

1. PEARS retrieves all viewable Quarterly Effort records that match the current dashboard filters.
2. Grand Challenge Total records are grouped by their critical issue (grand challenge) name.
3. Each Grand Challenge Total's gender counts are first multiplied by the percentage of effort entered on that record, apportioning the contacts across the critical issues the record reports. For each critical issue, the panel then sums the apportioned gender fields — Female, Male, Non-Binary, Prefer Not to Respond, and Unknown — and rounds the totals to whole contacts.
4. A stacked bar chart is displayed where:
   * The x-axis shows the critical issue names, sorted alphabetically.
   * Each stacked segment represents a gender category.
   * The segment height represents the contact count for that gender.

#### Additional Notes

* Grand Challenge Totals are a component of the Quarterly Effort module and represent aggregate contact counts by demographic group.
* The chart always shows all five gender categories, but **Non-Binary** is collected on Quarterly Efforts only for reporting years 2023 and later, and **Prefer Not to Respond** and **Unknown** only for reporting years 2020 and later. For earlier reporting years those segments are zero.