New Zealand Health Terminology Service (NZHTS) Implementation Guide
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New Zealand Health Terminology Service (NZHTS) Implementation Guide, published by Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora. This guide is not an authorized publication; it is the continuous build for version 0.1.0 built by the FHIR (HL7® FHIR® Standard) CI Build. This version is based on the current content of https://github.com/tewhatuora/nzhts-ig/ and changes regularly. See the Directory of published versions

: Ethnicity of a person (L4) - JSON Representation

Active as of 2022-08-29

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{
  "resourceType" : "ValueSet",
  "id" : "ethnicity",
  "meta" : {
    "versionId" : "1",
    "lastUpdated" : "2026-02-24T17:35:27.896+13:00",
    "tag" : [
      {
        "system" : "https://standards.digital.health.nz/ns/nzhts-usage-tags",
        "code" : "FHIR"
      }
    ]
  },
  "url" : "https://nzhts.digital.health.nz/fhir/ValueSet/ethnic-group-level-4-code",
  "version" : "0.1.0",
  "name" : "Ethnicity",
  "title" : "Ethnicity of a person (L4)",
  "status" : "active",
  "date" : "2022-08-29T12:59:31+00:00",
  "publisher" : "Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora",
  "contact" : [
    {
      "name" : "Health New Zealand | Te Whatu Ora",
      "telecom" : [
        {
          "system" : "url",
          "value" : "https://www.tewhatuora.govt.nz/"
        }
      ]
    }
  ],
  "description" : "Codes to record a person's ethnicity, drawn from [Level 4 of the Ethnicity code system](http://aria.stats.govt.nz/aria/#ClassificationView:uri=http://stats.govt.nz/cms/ClassificationVersion/YVqOcFHSlguKkT17)\nNote that the correct version of the ethicity code system is 2.1.0",
  "compose" : {
    "include" : [
      {
        "system" : "https://standards.digital.health.nz/ns/ethnic-group-level-4-code",
        "version" : "2.1.0"
      }
    ]
  }
}