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1.25.4.1.50 HL7 v3 Code System Ethnicity

This code system (http://hl7.org/fhir/v3/Ethnicity) is defined as part of HL7 v3.

Summary

Defining URL:

http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/v3-Ethnicity

Name:

v3 Code System Ethnicity

Definition:

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.

OID:

(for OID based terminology systems)

System URL:

http://hl7.org/fhir/v3/Ethnicity

System OID:

2.16.840.1.113883.5.50

Source Resource

XML / JSON

This value set is used in the following places:

Extension http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/us-core-ethnicity: A category of human sharing heritage ((Required))

1.25.4.1.50.1 Content Logical Definition

This value set has an inline code system http://hl7.org/fhir/v3/Ethnicity, which defines the following codes:

Lvl	Code	Display	Definition
1	2135-2	Hispanic or Latino	Hispanic or Latino
2	2137-8	Spaniard	Spaniard
3	2138-6	Andalusian	Andalusian
3	2139-4	Asturian	Asturian
3	2140-2	Castillian	Castillian
3	2141-0	Catalonian	Catalonian
3	2142-8	Belearic Islander	Belearic Islander
3	2143-6	Gallego	Gallego
3	2144-4	Valencian	Valencian
3	2145-1	Canarian	Canarian
3	2146-9	Spanish Basque	Spanish Basque
2	2148-5	Mexican	Mexican
3	2149-3	Mexican American	Mexican American
3	2150-1	Mexicano	Mexicano
3	2151-9	Chicano	Chicano
3	2152-7	La Raza	La Raza
3	2153-5	Mexican American Indian	Mexican American Indian
2	2155-0	Central American	Central American
3	2156-8	Costa Rican	Costa Rican
3	2157-6	Guatemalan	Guatemalan
3	2158-4	Honduran	Honduran
3	2159-2	Nicaraguan	Nicaraguan
3	2160-0	Panamanian	Panamanian
3	2161-8	Salvadoran	Salvadoran
3	2162-6	Central American Indian	Central American Indian
3	2163-4	Canal Zone	Canal Zone
2	2165-9	South American	South American
3	2166-7	Argentinean	Argentinean
3	2167-5	Bolivian	Bolivian
3	2168-3	Chilean	Chilean
3	2169-1	Colombian	Colombian
3	2170-9	Ecuadorian	Ecuadorian
3	2171-7	Paraguayan	Paraguayan
3	2172-5	Peruvian	Peruvian
3	2173-3	Uruguayan	Uruguayan
3	2174-1	Venezuelan	Venezuelan
3	2175-8	South American Indian	South American Indian
3	2176-6	Criollo	Criollo
2	2178-2	Latin American	Latin American
2	2180-8	Puerto Rican	Puerto Rican
2	2182-4	Cuban	Cuban
2	2184-0	Dominican	Dominican
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.