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CodeSystem: Ethnicity

Official URL: http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-Ethnicity Version: 4.0.0
Active as of 2022-01-30 Responsible: Health Level Seven International Computable Name: Ethnicity
Other Identifiers: OID:2.16.840.1.113883.5.50

Copyright/Legal: This material derives from the HL7 Terminology THO. THO is copyright ©1989+ Health Level Seven International and is made available under the CC0 designation. For more licensing information see: https://terminology.hl7.org/license.html

Deprecation Information: Deprecated due to UP-265. This code system in NOT the acknowledged source of truth for Ethnicity concepts and codes. It should no longer be used. https://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem-CDCREC.html should be used in its place. 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.

This Code system is referenced in the content logical definition of the following value sets:

Generated Narrative: CodeSystem v3-Ethnicity

Language: en

Properties

This code system defines the following properties for its concepts

NameCodeURITypeDescription
Specializes Specializes Coding 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.
Generalizes Generalizes Coding Inverse of Specializes. Only included as a derived relationship.
internalId internalId http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/utg-concept-properties#v3-internal-id code The internal identifier for the concept in the HL7 Access database repository.
Status status http://hl7.org/fhir/concept-properties#status code Designation of a concept's state. Normally is not populated unless the state is retired.

Concepts

This case-sensitive code system http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-Ethnicity defines the following codes in a Is-A hierarchy:

LvlCodeDisplayDefinitioninternalIdStatus
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

History

DateActionAuthorCustodianComment
2023-11-14reviseMarc DuteauTSMGAdd standard copyright and contact to internal content; up-476
2022-10-20deprecateMarc DuteauSDDeprecate the Ethnicity Code System in THO; up-265
2022-10-18reviseMarc DuteauTSMGFixing missing metadata; up-349
2022-02-17 00:00:32+1100reviseGrahame GrieveVocabulary WGPopulate Missing caseSensitive property; UP-286
2020-05-06reviseTed KleinVocabulary WGMigrated to the UTG maintenance environment and publishing tooling.