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CodeSystem: v3 Code System Ethnicity

Official URL: http://hl7.org/fhir/v3/Ethnicity Version: 2016-11-11
Standards status: Informative Maturity Level: 0 Computable Name: 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.

This Code system is referenced in the content logical definition of the following value sets:

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

This case-sensitive code system http://hl7.org/fhir/v3/Ethnicity defines the following codes in a Is-A hierarchy:

LvlCodeDisplayDefinition
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.