http://hl7.org/fhir/us/core/StructureDefinition/us-core-ethnicity|8.0.0-ballot
Concepts classifying the person into a named category of humans sharing common history, traits, geographical origin or nationality. The ethnicity codes used to represent these concepts are based upon the [CDC ethnicity and Ethnicity Code Set Version 1.0](http://www.cdc.gov/phin/resources/vocabulary/index.html) which includes over 900 concepts for representing race and ethnicity of which 43 reference ethnicity. The ethnicity concepts are grouped by and pre-mapped to the 2 OMB ethnicity categories: - Hispanic or Latino - Not Hispanic or Latino.
description: 'Concepts classifying the person into a named category of humans sharing common history, traits, geographical origin or nationality. The ethnicity codes used to represent these concepts are based upon the [CDC ethnicity and Ethnicity Code Set Version 1.0](http://www.cdc.gov/phin/resources/vocabulary/index.html) which includes over 900 concepts for representing race and ethnicity of which 43 reference ethnicity. The ethnicity concepts are grouped by and pre-mapped to the 2 OMB ethnicity categories: - Hispanic or Latino - Not Hispanic or Latino.' derivation: constraint name: USCoreEthnicityExtension type: Extension elements: extension: index: 0 slicing: rules: open discriminator: - {path: url, type: value} min: 1 slices: ombCategory: match: {url: ombCategory} schema: short: Hispanic or Latino|Not Hispanic or Latino mustSupport: true index: 1 elements: url: pattern: {type: Uri, value: ombCategory} index: 2 value: choices: [] index: 4 required: [url, value] detailed: match: {url: detailed} schema: short: Extended ethnicity codes array: true index: 5 elements: url: pattern: {type: Uri, value: detailed} index: 6 value: choices: [] index: 8 required: [url, value] text: match: {url: text} schema: short: ethnicity Text mustSupport: true _required: true index: 9 elements: url: pattern: {type: Uri, value: text} index: 10 value: choices: [] index: 12 required: [url, value] url: pattern: {type: Uri, value: 'http://hl7.org/fhir/us/core/StructureDefinition/us-core-ethnicity'} index: 13 value: choices: [] index: 15 extensions: ombCategory: url: ombCategory short: Hispanic or Latino|Not Hispanic or Latino mustSupport: true index: 1 elements: url: pattern: {type: Uri, value: ombCategory} index: 2 value: choices: [] index: 4 required: [url, value] detailed: url: detailed short: Extended ethnicity codes array: true index: 5 elements: url: pattern: {type: Uri, value: detailed} index: 6 value: choices: [] index: 8 required: [url, value] text: url: text short: ethnicity Text mustSupport: true _required: true index: 9 elements: url: pattern: {type: Uri, value: text} index: 10 value: choices: [] index: 12 required: [url, value] class: extension kind: complex-type url: http://hl7.org/fhir/us/core/StructureDefinition/us-core-ethnicity base: http://hl7.org/fhir/StructureDefinition/Extension version: 8.0.0-ballot required: [url, extension]