---
type: "valueset"
title: "OMB Ethnicity Categories"
valueset: "omb-ethnicity"
---
# OMB Ethnicity Categories

- **Official URL**: http://hl7.org/fhir/omb-ethnicity
- **Status**: draft
- **Name**: OMBEthnicityCategories
- **Title**: OMB Ethnicity Categories
- **Publisher**: USRealm Task Force
- **Description**: 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](https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/fedreg_1997standards).

## Content (Compose)

- **System**: http://terminology.hl7.org/ValueSet/v3-Ethnicity | **Concepts**: 2135-2, 2186-5

## ValueSet XML



```xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<ValueSet xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
  <id value="omb-ethnicity"/>
  <url value="http://hl7.org/fhir/omb-ethnicity"/>
  <identifier>
    <system value="urn:ietf:rfc:3986"/>
    <value value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.3.2992"/>
  </identifier>
  <name value="OMBEthnicityCategories"/>
  <title value="OMB Ethnicity Categories"/>
  <status value="draft"/>
  <experimental value="true"/>
  <date value="2016-08-30"/>
  <publisher value="USRealm Task Force"/>
  <description value="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](https://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/fedreg_1997standards)."/>
  <compose>
    <include>
      <system value="http://terminology.hl7.org/ValueSet/v3-Ethnicity"/>
      <concept>
        <code value="2135-2"/>
        <display value="Hispanic or Latino"/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="2186-5"/>
        <display value="Non Hispanic or Latino"/>
      </concept>
    </include>
  </compose>
</ValueSet>
```