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4.3.2.50 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/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: 2.16.840.1.113883.5.50 (for OID based terminology systems)

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This Code system is used in the following value sets:

v3 Code System 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.)

4.3.2.50.1 Code System Content

Release Date: 2016-03-23

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