biographical data

Personal history details

Biographical data is factual information about a person's life—name, birth date, education, employment history, and similar details.

The term appears in official contexts: job applications, security clearances, personnel files.

The form requested basic biographical data.

Often shortened to bio data, especially in South Asian English.

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name · military service · work history · immigration history · aliases · maiden name · degree · marital status · ethnicity · place of birth · criminal record · citizenship · nationality · passport number · social security number · certifications · cultural heritage · family tree

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Opposites
factuality and subject matter

biographical datafiction

Imagined narrative work

fictional narrative · fantasy · misinformation · disinformation · mythology

specificity of subject

biographical datademographic data

Information about population characteristics

population data · statistical data · census data · metadata

temporal orientation

biographical datapredictions

Forecasts of future events

forecasts

Family

biographical, biography, biographer, biographic, biographies, biographers, biographically, graph, graphic

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Known to kids · Used worldwide · Timeless · Everyday, not technical · Rated G