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OMB Ethnicity Categories

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    <div xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><h2>OMB Ethnicity Categories</h2><div><p>The codes for the ethnicity categories - 'Hispanic or Latino' and 'Non Hispanic or Latino' - as defined by the <a href="https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/fedreg_1997standards">OMB Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity, Statistical Policy Directive No. 15, as revised, October 30, 1997</a>.</p>
</div><p>This value set includes codes from the following code systems:</p><ul><li>Include these codes as defined in <a href="CodeSystem-cdcrec.html"><code>urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.6.238</code></a><table class="none"><tr><td><b>Code</b></td><td><b>Display</b></td></tr><tr><td><a href="CodeSystem-cdcrec.html#cdcrec-2135-2">2135-2</a></td><td>Hispanic or Latino</td><td>Hispanic or Latino</td></tr><tr><td><a href="CodeSystem-cdcrec.html#cdcrec-2186-5">2186-5</a></td><td>Non 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.</td></tr></table></li></ul></div>
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  <url value="http://hl7.org/fhir/us/core/ValueSet/omb-ethnicity-category"/>
  <version value="1.0.0"/>
  <name value="OMB Ethnicity Categories"/>
  <status value="draft"/>
  <date value="2016-08-30"/>
  <publisher value="HL7 US Realm Steering Committee"/>
  <description
               value="The codes for the ethnicity categories - &#39;Hispanic or Latino&#39; and &#39;Non Hispanic or Latino&#39; - as defined by the [OMB Standards for Maintaining, Collecting, and Presenting Federal Data on Race and Ethnicity, Statistical Policy Directive No. 15, as revised, October 30, 1997](https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/fedreg_1997standards)."/>
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      <concept>
        <code value="2135-2"/>
        <display value="Hispanic or Latino"/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="2186-5"/>
        <display value="Non Hispanic or Latino"/>
      </concept>
    </include>
  </compose>
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