Table 3-5: Comparison of Granular Ethnicity Categorization and Coding Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data: Standardization for Health Care Qu Table 3-5 Comparison of Granular Ethnicity Categorization and Coding SystemsCategory and Code SetTotal Number of CategoriesEstimated Breakdown of Categories by OMB Race and Hispanic Ethnicity CategoryCDC/HL7 Race and Ethnicity Code Set 1.0 (2000)Over 925 categoriesOver 800 American Indian or Alaska Native categories 21 White categories 19 Black or African American categories 24 Asian categories/codes categories 23 NHOPI categories 38 Hispanic or Latino categoriesCensus Ancestry Codes993 categories212 broad "ancestry descriptions" Approximately 780 more detailed response categoriesMassachusetts Superset173 categories31 major ethnicities categories 140 sub-ethnicities categoriesKaiser Permanente Granular Ethnicity (2009)268 categories59 American Indian or Alaska Native categories 206 additional ethnicitiesWisconsin Cancer Reporting System Code Manual (2008)648 categories371 American Indian or Alaska Native categories 129 White categories 37 Black or African American categories 41 NHOPI categories 14 Other Race categoriesContra Costa Health Plan Race and Ethnicity143 categories130 categories from the CDC/HL7 Code Set 9 additional ethnicity categories: American, Bosnian, Brazilian, Kurdish, Mixtec, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, and Yao, MienOMB = Office of Management and Budget CDC/HL7 = Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Health Level 7Note: The estimated categories in the third column may not equal the total number of categories in the middle column due to additional response and coding options such as Unknown, Declined, and Unavailable. Sources: CDC, 2000; Kaiser Permanente, 2009; Taylor-Clark, 2009; Tiutin, 2009; U.S. Census Bureau, 2005; Wisconsin Cancer Reporting System, 2008.Return to Document Current as of March 2010 Internet Citation: Table 3-5: Comparison of Granular Ethnicity Categorization and Coding : Race, Ethnicity, and Language Data: Standardization for Health Care Qu. March 2010. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/iomracereport/reldata3tab3-5.html
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