OMB Ethnicity Categories

The codes for the ethnicity categories - 'Hispanic or Latino' and 'Non Hispanic or Latino' - 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.

This value set includes codes from the following code systems:

  • Include these codes as defined in urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.6.238
    CodeDisplay
    2135-2Hispanic or LatinoHispanic or Latino
    2186-5Non Hispanic or LatinoNote that this term remains in the table for completeness, even though within HL7, the notion of "not otherwise coded" term is deprecated.