HL7 Terminology (THO)
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CodeSystem: Ethnicity

Official URL: http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-Ethnicity Version: 5.0.0
Responsible: Health Level Seven International Computable Name: Ethnicity
Other Identifiers: OID:2.16.840.1.113883.5.50

Copyright/Legal: This material derives from the HL7 Terminology THO. THO is copyright ©1989+ Health Level Seven International and is made available under the CC0 designation. For more licensing information see: https://terminology.hl7.org/license.html

Deprecation Information: Deprecated due to UP-265. This code system in NOT the acknowledged source of truth for Ethnicity concepts and codes. It should no longer be used. https://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem-CDCREC.html should be used in its place. 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 definition of the following value sets:

Language: en

Properties

This code system defines the following properties for its concepts

NameCodeURITypeDescription
Status status http://hl7.org/fhir/concept-properties#status code Designation of a concept's state. Normally is not populated unless the state is retired.

Concepts

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

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

Description of the above table(s).

History

DateActionCustodianAuthorComment
2023-11-14reviseTSMGMarc DuteauAdd standard copyright and contact to internal content; up-476
2022-10-20deprecateSDMarc DuteauDeprecate the Ethnicity Code System in THO; up-265
2022-10-18reviseTSMGMarc DuteauFixing missing metadata; up-349
2022-02-17 00:00:32+1100reviseVocabulary WGGrahame GrievePopulate Missing caseSensitive property; UP-286
2020-05-06reviseVocabulary WGTed KleinMigrated to the UTG maintenance environment and publishing tooling.