Ethnicity

In the United States, federal standards for classifying data on ethnicity determine the categories used by federal agencies and exert a strong influence on categorization by state and local agencies and private sector organizations. The federal standards do not conceptually define ethnicity, and they recognize the absence of an anthropological or scientific basis for ethnicity classification. Instead, the federal standards acknowledge that ethnicity is a social-political construct in which an individual's own identification with a particular ethnicity is preferred to observer identification. The standards specify two minimum ethnicity categories: Hispanic or Latino, and Not Hispanic or Latino. The standards define a Hispanic or Latino as a person of "Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban, South or Central America, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race." The standards stipulate that ethnicity data need not be limited to the two minimum categories, but any expansion must be collapsible to those categories. In addition, the standards stipulate that an individual can be Hispanic or Latino or can be Not Hispanic or Latino, but cannot be both.

Properties

Code	URL	Description	Type
Specializes		The child code is a more narrow version of the concept represented by the parent code. I.e. Every child concept is also a valid parent concept. Used to allow determination of subsumption. Must be transitive, irreflexive, antisymmetric.	Coding
Generalizes		Inverse of Specializes. Only included as a derived relationship.	Coding
internalId	http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/utg-concept-properties#v3-internal-id	The internal identifier for the concept in the HL7 Access database repository.	code
status	http://hl7.org/fhir/concept-properties#status	Designation of a concept's state. Normally is not populated unless the state is retired.	code

This code system http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-Ethnicity defines the following codes:

Lvl	Code	Display	Definition	internalId	status
1	2135-2	Hispanic or Latino		15837	active
2	2137-8	Spaniard		15838	active
3	2138-6	Andalusian		15839	active
3	2139-4	Asturian		15840	active
3	2140-2	Castillian		15841	active
3	2141-0	Catalonian		15842	active
3	2142-8	Belearic Islander		15843	active
3	2143-6	Gallego		15844	active
3	2144-4	Valencian		15845	active
3	2145-1	Canarian		15846	active
3	2146-9	Spanish Basque		15847	active
2	2148-5	Mexican		15848	active
3	2149-3	Mexican American		15849	active
3	2150-1	Mexicano		15850	active
3	2151-9	Chicano		15851	active
3	2152-7	La Raza		15852	active
3	2153-5	Mexican American Indian		15853	active
2	2155-0	Central American		15854	active
3	2156-8	Costa Rican		15855	active
3	2157-6	Guatemalan		15856	active
3	2158-4	Honduran		15857	active
3	2159-2	Nicaraguan		15858	active
3	2160-0	Panamanian		15859	active
3	2161-8	Salvadoran		15860	active
3	2162-6	Central American Indian		15861	active
3	2163-4	Canal Zone		15862	active
2	2165-9	South American		15863	active
3	2166-7	Argentinean		15864	active
3	2167-5	Bolivian		15865	active
3	2168-3	Chilean		15866	active
3	2169-1	Colombian		15867	active
3	2170-9	Ecuadorian		15868	active
3	2171-7	Paraguayan		15869	active
3	2172-5	Peruvian		15870	active
3	2173-3	Uruguayan		15871	active
3	2174-1	Venezuelan		15872	active
3	2175-8	South American Indian		15873	active
3	2176-6	Criollo		15874	active
2	2178-2	Latin American		15875	active
2	2180-8	Puerto Rican		15876	active
2	2182-4	Cuban		15877	active
2	2184-0	Dominican		15878	active
1	2186-5	Not Hispanic or Latino	Note that this term remains in the table for completeness, even though within HL7, the notion of "not otherwise coded" term is deprecated.	15879	active