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Ethnicity      [2.16.840.1.113883.5.50]

Description:

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.

Lvl- Typ Concept Code
  Head Code-defined Value Set		 Print Name Definition, Properties, Relationships
0-S 2135-2
 v:EthnicityHispanic		 Hispanic or Latino

Concept Relationships:
  Generalizes (derived): 2137-8 2148-5 2155-0 2165-9 2178-2 2180-8 2182-4 2184-0

1-S . 2137-8
.   v:EthnicityHispanicSpaniard		 Spaniard

Concept Relationships:
  Specializes: 2135-2
  Generalizes (derived): 2138-6 2139-4 2140-2 2141-0 2142-8 2143-6 2144-4 2145-1 2146-9

2-L . . 2138-6 Andalusian

Concept Relationships:
  Specializes: 2137-8

2-L . . 2139-4 Asturian

Concept Relationships:
  Specializes: 2137-8

2-L . . 2140-2 Castillian

Concept Relationships:
  Specializes: 2137-8

2-L . . 2141-0 Catalonian

Concept Relationships:
  Specializes: 2137-8

2-L . . 2142-8 Belearic Islander

Concept Relationships:
  Specializes: 2137-8

2-L . . 2143-6 Gallego

Concept Relationships:
  Specializes: 2137-8

2-L . . 2144-4 Valencian

Concept Relationships:
  Specializes: 2137-8

2-L . . 2145-1 Canarian

Concept Relationships:
  Specializes: 2137-8

2-L . . 2146-9 Spanish Basque

Concept Relationships:
  Specializes: 2137-8

1-S . 2148-5
.   v:EthnicityHispanicMexican		 Mexican

Concept Relationships:
  Specializes: 2135-2
  Generalizes (derived): 2149-3 2150-1 2151-9 2152-7 2153-5

2-L . . 2149-3 Mexican American

Concept Relationships:
  Specializes: 2148-5

2-L . . 2150-1 Mexicano

Concept Relationships:
  Specializes: 2148-5

2-L . . 2151-9 Chicano

Concept Relationships:
  Specializes: 2148-5

2-L . . 2152-7 La Raza

Concept Relationships:
  Specializes: 2148-5

2-L . . 2153-5 Mexican American Indian

Concept Relationships:
  Specializes: 2148-5

1-S . 2155-0
.   v:EthnicityHispanicCentralAmerican		 Central American

Concept Relationships:
  Specializes: 2135-2
  Generalizes (derived): 2156-8 2157-6 2158-4 2159-2 2160-0 2161-8 2162-6 2163-4

2-L . . 2156-8 Costa Rican

Concept Relationships:
  Specializes: 2155-0

2-L . . 2157-6 Guatemalan

Concept Relationships:
  Specializes: 2155-0

2-L . . 2158-4 Honduran

Concept Relationships:
  Specializes: 2155-0

2-L . . 2159-2 Nicaraguan

Concept Relationships:
  Specializes: 2155-0

2-L . . 2160-0 Panamanian

Concept Relationships:
  Specializes: 2155-0

2-L . . 2161-8 Salvadoran

Concept Relationships:
  Specializes: 2155-0

2-L . . 2162-6 Central American Indian

Concept Relationships:
  Specializes: 2155-0

2-L . . 2163-4 Canal Zone

Concept Relationships:
  Specializes: 2155-0

1-S . 2165-9
.   v:EthnicityHispanicSouthAmerican		 South American

Concept Relationships:
  Specializes: 2135-2
  Generalizes (derived): 2166-7 2167-5 2168-3 2169-1 2170-9 2171-7 2172-5 2173-3 2174-1 2175-8 2176-6

2-L . . 2166-7 Argentinean

Concept Relationships:
  Specializes: 2165-9

2-L . . 2167-5 Bolivian

Concept Relationships:
  Specializes: 2165-9

2-L . . 2168-3 Chilean

Concept Relationships:
  Specializes: 2165-9

2-L . . 2169-1 Colombian

Concept Relationships:
  Specializes: 2165-9

2-L . . 2170-9 Ecuadorian

Concept Relationships:
  Specializes: 2165-9

2-L . . 2171-7 Paraguayan

Concept Relationships:
  Specializes: 2165-9

2-L . . 2172-5 Peruvian

Concept Relationships:
  Specializes: 2165-9

2-L . . 2173-3 Uruguayan

Concept Relationships:
  Specializes: 2165-9

2-L . . 2174-1 Venezuelan

Concept Relationships:
  Specializes: 2165-9

2-L . . 2175-8 South American Indian

Concept Relationships:
  Specializes: 2165-9

2-L . . 2176-6 Criollo

Concept Relationships:
  Specializes: 2165-9

1-L . 2178-2 Latin American

Concept Relationships:
  Specializes: 2135-2

1-L . 2180-8 Puerto Rican

Concept Relationships:
  Specializes: 2135-2

1-L . 2182-4 Cuban

Concept Relationships:
  Specializes: 2135-2

1-L . 2184-0 Dominican

Concept Relationships:
  Specializes: 2135-2

0-L 2186-5 Not Hispanic or Latino

Definition:

Note that this term remains in the table for completeness, even though within HL7, the notion of "not otherwise coded" term is deprecated.


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