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The answer to that question is no: 92 women responded to the census.
We can't say anything about "more women answering" or "fewer men answering" when we are comparing to a survey that has both more women and more men than this one. (If you weren't talking about absolute numbers, then all we have is the 8% vs. 13% which only tells us that at least one of "more women" and "fewer men" is true.)
A better comparison would be to one of the other polls with a similar number of responders (i.e. one in Discussion), but I couldn't find one that recorded gender. (a list of "polls" and of "surveys")