---
type: "valueset"
title: "OMB Race Categories"
valueset: "omb-race"
---
# OMB Race Categories

- **Official URL**: http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/omb-race
- **Version**: 1.5.0
- **Status**: active
- **Name**: OMBRaceCategories
- **Title**: OMB Race Categories
- **Publisher**: DAF Project
- **Description**: The codes for the concepts 'Unknown' and  'Asked but no answer' and the the codes for the five race categories - 'American Indian' or 'Alaska Native', 'Asian', 'Black or African American', 'Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander', and 'White' - 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/CodeSystem/v3-Race | **Concepts**: 1002-5, 2028-9, 2054-5, 2076-8, 2106-3
- **System**: http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-NullFlavor | **Concepts**: UNK, ASKU

## ValueSet XML



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

<ValueSet xmlns="http://hl7.org/fhir">
  <id value="omb-race"/>
  <url value="http://hl7.org/fhir/ValueSet/omb-race"/>
  <identifier>
    <system value="urn:ietf:rfc:3986"/>
    <value value="urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.642.3.2993"/>
  </identifier>
  <version value="1.5.0"/>
  <name value="OMBRaceCategories"/>
  <title value="OMB Race Categories"/>
  <status value="active"/>
  <experimental value="true"/>
  <date value="2016-05-25T16:59:08+10:00"/>
  <publisher value="DAF Project"/>
  <contact>
    <telecom>
      <system value="url"/>
      <value value="http://hl7.org/fhir"/>
    </telecom>
  </contact>
  <contact>
    <telecom>
      <system value="url"/>
      <value value="http://wiki.siframework.org/Data+Access+Framework+Homepage"/>
    </telecom>
  </contact>
  <description value="The codes for the concepts 'Unknown' and  'Asked but no answer' and the the codes for the five race categories - 'American Indian' or 'Alaska Native', 'Asian', 'Black or African American', 'Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander', and 'White' - 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/CodeSystem/v3-Race"/>
      <concept>
        <code value="1002-5"/>
        <display value="American Indian or Alaska Native"/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="2028-9"/>
        <display value="Asian"/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="2054-5"/>
        <display value="Black or African American"/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="2076-8"/>
        <display value="Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander"/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="2106-3"/>
        <display value="White"/>
      </concept>
    </include>
    <include>
      <system value="http://terminology.hl7.org/CodeSystem/v3-NullFlavor"/>
      <concept>
        <code value="UNK"/>
        <display value="Unknown"/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="ASKU"/>
        <display value="Asked but no answer"/>
      </concept>
    </include>
  </compose>
</ValueSet>
```