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ValueSet: Ethnicity

Official URL: http://terminology.hl7.org/ValueSet/v3-Ethnicity Version: 3.0.0
Active as of 2014-03-26 Responsible: Health Level Seven International Computable Name: Ethnicity
Other Identifiers: urn:ietf:rfc:3986#Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)#urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.1.11.15836

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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.

References

This value set is not used here; it may be used elsewhere (e.g. specifications and/or implementations that use this content)

Logical Definition (CLD)

This value set includes codes based on the following rules:

 

Expansion

This value set contains 43 concepts.

CodeSystemDisplayDefinition
  2186-5http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EthnicityNot 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.

  2135-2http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EthnicityHispanic or Latino
  2137-8http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EthnicitySpaniard
  2138-6http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EthnicityAndalusian
  2139-4http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EthnicityAsturian
  2140-2http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EthnicityCastillian
  2141-0http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EthnicityCatalonian
  2142-8http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EthnicityBelearic Islander
  2143-6http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EthnicityGallego
  2144-4http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EthnicityValencian
  2145-1http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EthnicityCanarian
  2146-9http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EthnicitySpanish Basque
  2148-5http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EthnicityMexican
  2149-3http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EthnicityMexican American
  2150-1http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EthnicityMexicano
  2151-9http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EthnicityChicano
  2152-7http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EthnicityLa Raza
  2153-5http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EthnicityMexican American Indian
  2155-0http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EthnicityCentral American
  2156-8http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EthnicityCosta Rican
  2157-6http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EthnicityGuatemalan
  2158-4http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EthnicityHonduran
  2159-2http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EthnicityNicaraguan
  2160-0http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EthnicityPanamanian
  2161-8http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EthnicitySalvadoran
  2162-6http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EthnicityCentral American Indian
  2163-4http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EthnicityCanal Zone
  2165-9http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EthnicitySouth American
  2166-7http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EthnicityArgentinean
  2167-5http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EthnicityBolivian
  2168-3http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EthnicityChilean
  2169-1http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EthnicityColombian
  2170-9http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EthnicityEcuadorian
  2171-7http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EthnicityParaguayan
  2172-5http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EthnicityPeruvian
  2173-3http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EthnicityUruguayan
  2174-1http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EthnicityVenezuelan
  2175-8http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EthnicitySouth American Indian
  2176-6http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EthnicityCriollo
  2178-2http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EthnicityLatin American
  2180-8http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EthnicityPuerto Rican
  2182-4http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EthnicityCuban
  2184-0http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-EthnicityDominican

Explanation of the columns that may appear on this page:

Level A few code lists that FHIR defines are hierarchical - each code is assigned a level. In this scheme, some codes are under other codes, and imply that the code they are under also applies
System The source of the definition of the code (when the value set draws in codes defined elsewhere)
Code The code (used as the code in the resource instance)
Display The display (used in the display element of a Coding). If there is no display, implementers should not simply display the code, but map the concept into their application
Definition An explanation of the meaning of the concept
Comments Additional notes about how to use the code

History

DateActionCustodianAuthorComment
2023-11-14reviseTSMGMarc DuteauAdd standard copyright and contact to internal content; up-476
2022-10-18reviseTSMGMarc DuteauFixing missing metadata; up-349
2020-05-06reviseVocabulary WGTed KleinMigrated to the UTG maintenance environment and publishing tooling.
2014-03-26revise2014T1_2014-03-26_001283 (RIM release ID)Vocabulary (Woody Beeler) (no record of original request)Lock all vaue sets untouched since 2014-03-26 to trackingId 2014T1_2014_03_26