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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.
<CodeSystem xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
  <id value="v3-Ethnicity"/>
  <meta>
    <lastUpdated value="2016-03-23T00:00:00.000+11:00"/>
  </meta>
  <text>
    <status value="generated"/>
    <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
      <p>Release Date: 2016-03-23</p>

      <table class="grid">
 
        <tr>
          <td>
            <b>Level</b>
          </td>
          <td>
            <b>Code</b>
          </td>
          <td>
            <b>Display</b>
          </td>
          <td>
            <b>Definition</b>
          </td>
        </tr>
 
        <tr>
          <td>1</td>
          <td>2135-2
            <a name="2135-2"> </a>
          </td>
          <td>Hispanic or Latino</td>
          <td/>
        </tr>
 
        <tr>
          <td>2</td>
          <td>Â Â 2137-8
            <a name="2137-8"> </a>
          </td>
          <td>Spaniard</td>
          <td/>
        </tr>
 
        <tr>
          <td>3</td>
          <td>Â Â Â Â 2138-6
            <a name="2138-6"> </a>
          </td>
          <td>Andalusian</td>
          <td/>
        </tr>
 
        <tr>
          <td>3</td>
          <td>Â Â Â Â 2139-4
            <a name="2139-4"> </a>
          </td>
          <td>Asturian</td>
          <td/>
        </tr>
 
        <tr>
          <td>3</td>
          <td>Â Â Â Â 2140-2
            <a name="2140-2"> </a>
          </td>
          <td>Castillian</td>
          <td/>
        </tr>
 
        <tr>
          <td>3</td>
          <td>Â Â Â Â 2141-0
            <a name="2141-0"> </a>
          </td>
          <td>Catalonian</td>
          <td/>
        </tr>
 
        <tr>
          <td>3</td>
          <td>Â Â Â Â 2142-8
            <a name="2142-8"> </a>
          </td>
          <td>Belearic Islander</td>
          <td/>
        </tr>
 
        <tr>
          <td>3</td>
          <td>Â Â Â Â 2143-6
            <a name="2143-6"> </a>
          </td>
          <td>Gallego</td>
          <td/>
        </tr>
 
        <tr>
          <td>3</td>
          <td>Â Â Â Â 2144-4
            <a name="2144-4"> </a>
          </td>
          <td>Valencian</td>
          <td/>
        </tr>
 
        <tr>
          <td>3</td>
          <td>Â Â Â Â 2145-1
            <a name="2145-1"> </a>
          </td>
          <td>Canarian</td>
          <td/>
        </tr>
 
        <tr>
          <td>3</td>
          <td>Â Â Â Â 2146-9
            <a name="2146-9"> </a>
          </td>
          <td>Spanish Basque</td>
          <td/>
        </tr>
 
        <tr>
          <td>2</td>
          <td>Â Â 2148-5
            <a name="2148-5"> </a>
          </td>
          <td>Mexican</td>
          <td/>
        </tr>
 
        <tr>
          <td>3</td>
          <td>Â Â Â Â 2149-3
            <a name="2149-3"> </a>
          </td>
          <td>Mexican American</td>
          <td/>
        </tr>
 
        <tr>
          <td>3</td>
          <td>Â Â Â Â 2150-1
            <a name="2150-1"> </a>
          </td>
          <td>Mexicano</td>
          <td/>
        </tr>
 
        <tr>
          <td>3</td>
          <td>Â Â Â Â 2151-9
            <a name="2151-9"> </a>
          </td>
          <td>Chicano</td>
          <td/>
        </tr>
 
        <tr>
          <td>3</td>
          <td>Â Â Â Â 2152-7
            <a name="2152-7"> </a>
          </td>
          <td>La Raza</td>
          <td/>
        </tr>
 
        <tr>
          <td>3</td>
          <td>Â Â Â Â 2153-5
            <a name="2153-5"> </a>
          </td>
          <td>Mexican American Indian</td>
          <td/>
        </tr>
 
        <tr>
          <td>2</td>
          <td>Â Â 2155-0
            <a name="2155-0"> </a>
          </td>
          <td>Central American</td>
          <td/>
        </tr>
 
        <tr>
          <td>3</td>
          <td>Â Â Â Â 2156-8
            <a name="2156-8"> </a>
          </td>
          <td>Costa Rican</td>
          <td/>
        </tr>
 
        <tr>
          <td>3</td>
          <td>Â Â Â Â 2157-6
            <a name="2157-6"> </a>
          </td>
          <td>Guatemalan</td>
          <td/>
        </tr>
 
        <tr>
          <td>3</td>
          <td>Â Â Â Â 2158-4
            <a name="2158-4"> </a>
          </td>
          <td>Honduran</td>
          <td/>
        </tr>
 
        <tr>
          <td>3</td>
          <td>Â Â Â Â 2159-2
            <a name="2159-2"> </a>
          </td>
          <td>Nicaraguan</td>
          <td/>
        </tr>
 
        <tr>
          <td>3</td>
          <td>Â Â Â Â 2160-0
            <a name="2160-0"> </a>
          </td>
          <td>Panamanian</td>
          <td/>
        </tr>
 
        <tr>
          <td>3</td>
          <td>Â Â Â Â 2161-8
            <a name="2161-8"> </a>
          </td>
          <td>Salvadoran</td>
          <td/>
        </tr>
 
        <tr>
          <td>3</td>
          <td>Â Â Â Â 2162-6
            <a name="2162-6"> </a>
          </td>
          <td>Central American Indian</td>
          <td/>
        </tr>
 
        <tr>
          <td>3</td>
          <td>Â Â Â Â 2163-4
            <a name="2163-4"> </a>
          </td>
          <td>Canal Zone</td>
          <td/>
        </tr>
 
        <tr>
          <td>2</td>
          <td>Â Â 2165-9
            <a name="2165-9"> </a>
          </td>
          <td>South American</td>
          <td/>
        </tr>
 
        <tr>
          <td>3</td>
          <td>Â Â Â Â 2166-7
            <a name="2166-7"> </a>
          </td>
          <td>Argentinean</td>
          <td/>
        </tr>
 
        <tr>
          <td>3</td>
          <td>Â Â Â Â 2167-5
            <a name="2167-5"> </a>
          </td>
          <td>Bolivian</td>
          <td/>
        </tr>
 
        <tr>
          <td>3</td>
          <td>Â Â Â Â 2168-3
            <a name="2168-3"> </a>
          </td>
          <td>Chilean</td>
          <td/>
        </tr>
 
        <tr>
          <td>3</td>
          <td>Â Â Â Â 2169-1
            <a name="2169-1"> </a>
          </td>
          <td>Colombian</td>
          <td/>
        </tr>
 
        <tr>
          <td>3</td>
          <td>Â Â Â Â 2170-9
            <a name="2170-9"> </a>
          </td>
          <td>Ecuadorian</td>
          <td/>
        </tr>
 
        <tr>
          <td>3</td>
          <td>Â Â Â Â 2171-7
            <a name="2171-7"> </a>
          </td>
          <td>Paraguayan</td>
          <td/>
        </tr>
 
        <tr>
          <td>3</td>
          <td>Â Â Â Â 2172-5
            <a name="2172-5"> </a>
          </td>
          <td>Peruvian</td>
          <td/>
        </tr>
 
        <tr>
          <td>3</td>
          <td>Â Â Â Â 2173-3
            <a name="2173-3"> </a>
          </td>
          <td>Uruguayan</td>
          <td/>
        </tr>
 
        <tr>
          <td>3</td>
          <td>Â Â Â Â 2174-1
            <a name="2174-1"> </a>
          </td>
          <td>Venezuelan</td>
          <td/>
        </tr>
 
        <tr>
          <td>3</td>
          <td>Â Â Â Â 2175-8
            <a name="2175-8"> </a>
          </td>
          <td>South American Indian</td>
          <td/>
        </tr>
 
        <tr>
          <td>3</td>
          <td>Â Â Â Â 2176-6
            <a name="2176-6"> </a>
          </td>
          <td>Criollo</td>
          <td/>
        </tr>
 
        <tr>
          <td>2</td>
          <td>Â Â 2178-2
            <a name="2178-2"> </a>
          </td>
          <td>Latin American</td>
          <td/>
        </tr>
 
        <tr>
          <td>2</td>
          <td>Â Â 2180-8
            <a name="2180-8"> </a>
          </td>
          <td>Puerto Rican</td>
          <td/>
        </tr>
 
        <tr>
          <td>2</td>
          <td>Â Â 2182-4
            <a name="2182-4"> </a>
          </td>
          <td>Cuban</td>
          <td/>
        </tr>
 
        <tr>
          <td>2</td>
          <td>Â Â 2184-0
            <a name="2184-0"> </a>
          </td>
          <td>Dominican</td>
          <td/>
        </tr>
 
        <tr>
          <td>1</td>
          <td>2186-5
            <a name="2186-5"> </a>
          </td>
          <td>Not Hispanic or Latino</td>
          <td>
                        Note that this term remains in the table for completeness, even
               though within HL7, the notion of &quot;not otherwise coded&quot; term is deprecated.
            <br/>

                     
          </td>
        </tr>

      </table>

    </div>
  </text>
  <extension url="http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/valueset-oid">
    <valueUri value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.5.50"/>
  </extension>
  <url value="http://hl7.org/fhir/v3/Ethnicity"/>
  <version value="2016-03-23"/>
  <name value="v3 Code System Ethnicity"/>
  <status value="active"/>
  <experimental value="false"/>
  <publisher value="HL7, Inc"/>
  <contact>
    <telecom>
      <system value="other"/>
      <value value="http://hl7.org"/>
    </telecom>
  </contact>
  <date value="2016-03-23T00:00:00+11:00"/>
  <description value=" 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 &quot;Mexican, Puerto Rican, Cuban,
     South or Central America, or other Spanish culture or origin, regardless of race.&quot;
     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."/>
  <caseSensitive value="true"/>
  <valueSet value="http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/v3-Ethnicity"/>
  <content value="complete"/>
  <concept>
    <code value="2135-2"/>
    <display value="Hispanic or Latino"/>
    <definition value="Hispanic or Latino"/>
    <concept>
      <code value="2137-8"/>
      <display value="Spaniard"/>
      <definition value="Spaniard"/>
      <concept>
        <code value="2138-6"/>
        <display value="Andalusian"/>
        <definition value="Andalusian"/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="2139-4"/>
        <display value="Asturian"/>
        <definition value="Asturian"/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="2140-2"/>
        <display value="Castillian"/>
        <definition value="Castillian"/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="2141-0"/>
        <display value="Catalonian"/>
        <definition value="Catalonian"/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="2142-8"/>
        <display value="Belearic Islander"/>
        <definition value="Belearic Islander"/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="2143-6"/>
        <display value="Gallego"/>
        <definition value="Gallego"/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="2144-4"/>
        <display value="Valencian"/>
        <definition value="Valencian"/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="2145-1"/>
        <display value="Canarian"/>
        <definition value="Canarian"/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="2146-9"/>
        <display value="Spanish Basque"/>
        <definition value="Spanish Basque"/>
      </concept>
    </concept>
    <concept>
      <code value="2148-5"/>
      <display value="Mexican"/>
      <definition value="Mexican"/>
      <concept>
        <code value="2149-3"/>
        <display value="Mexican American"/>
        <definition value="Mexican American"/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="2150-1"/>
        <display value="Mexicano"/>
        <definition value="Mexicano"/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="2151-9"/>
        <display value="Chicano"/>
        <definition value="Chicano"/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="2152-7"/>
        <display value="La Raza"/>
        <definition value="La Raza"/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="2153-5"/>
        <display value="Mexican American Indian"/>
        <definition value="Mexican American Indian"/>
      </concept>
    </concept>
    <concept>
      <code value="2155-0"/>
      <display value="Central American"/>
      <definition value="Central American"/>
      <concept>
        <code value="2156-8"/>
        <display value="Costa Rican"/>
        <definition value="Costa Rican"/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="2157-6"/>
        <display value="Guatemalan"/>
        <definition value="Guatemalan"/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="2158-4"/>
        <display value="Honduran"/>
        <definition value="Honduran"/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="2159-2"/>
        <display value="Nicaraguan"/>
        <definition value="Nicaraguan"/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="2160-0"/>
        <display value="Panamanian"/>
        <definition value="Panamanian"/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="2161-8"/>
        <display value="Salvadoran"/>
        <definition value="Salvadoran"/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="2162-6"/>
        <display value="Central American Indian"/>
        <definition value="Central American Indian"/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="2163-4"/>
        <display value="Canal Zone"/>
        <definition value="Canal Zone"/>
      </concept>
    </concept>
    <concept>
      <code value="2165-9"/>
      <display value="South American"/>
      <definition value="South American"/>
      <concept>
        <code value="2166-7"/>
        <display value="Argentinean"/>
        <definition value="Argentinean"/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="2167-5"/>
        <display value="Bolivian"/>
        <definition value="Bolivian"/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="2168-3"/>
        <display value="Chilean"/>
        <definition value="Chilean"/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="2169-1"/>
        <display value="Colombian"/>
        <definition value="Colombian"/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="2170-9"/>
        <display value="Ecuadorian"/>
        <definition value="Ecuadorian"/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="2171-7"/>
        <display value="Paraguayan"/>
        <definition value="Paraguayan"/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="2172-5"/>
        <display value="Peruvian"/>
        <definition value="Peruvian"/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="2173-3"/>
        <display value="Uruguayan"/>
        <definition value="Uruguayan"/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="2174-1"/>
        <display value="Venezuelan"/>
        <definition value="Venezuelan"/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="2175-8"/>
        <display value="South American Indian"/>
        <definition value="South American Indian"/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="2176-6"/>
        <display value="Criollo"/>
        <definition value="Criollo"/>
      </concept>
    </concept>
    <concept>
      <code value="2178-2"/>
      <display value="Latin American"/>
      <definition value="Latin American"/>
    </concept>
    <concept>
      <code value="2180-8"/>
      <display value="Puerto Rican"/>
      <definition value="Puerto Rican"/>
    </concept>
    <concept>
      <code value="2182-4"/>
      <display value="Cuban"/>
      <definition value="Cuban"/>
    </concept>
    <concept>
      <code value="2184-0"/>
      <display value="Dominican"/>
      <definition value="Dominican"/>
    </concept>
  </concept>
  <concept>
    <code value="2186-5"/>
    <display value="Not Hispanic or Latino"/>
    <definition value="Note that this term remains in the table for completeness, even though within HL7, the
       notion of &quot;not otherwise coded&quot; term is deprecated."/>
  </concept>
</CodeSystem>
Usage note: every effort has been made to ensure that the examples are correct and useful, but they are not a normative part of the specification.