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Enum: RaceEnum

A constrained set of enumerative values containing the United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB) values for race.

URI: RaceEnum

Permissible Values

Value Meaning Description
AMERICAN_INDIAN_OR_ALASKA_NATIVE OMOP:8657 A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and South Ame...
ASIAN OMOP:8515 A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far East, South...
BLACK_OR_AFRICAN_AMERICAN OMOP:8516 A person having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa
NATIVE_HAWAIIAN_OR_OTHER_PACIFIC_ISLANDER OMOP:8557 Denotes a person having origins in any of the original peoples of Hawaii, Gua...
UNKNOWN OMOP:8552 Not known, not observed, not recorded, or refused
WHITE OMOP:8527 Denotes person with European, Middle Eastern, or North African ancestral orig...

Slots

Name Description
race An arbitrary classification of a taxonomic group that is a division of a spec...

Identifier and Mapping Information

Schema Source

  • from schema: https://w3id.org/nhlbidatastage/bdchm

LinkML Source

name: RaceEnum
description: A constrained set of enumerative values containing the United States
  Office of Management and Budget (OMB) values for race.
from_schema: https://w3id.org/nhlbidatastage/bdchm
rank: 1000
permissible_values:
  AMERICAN_INDIAN_OR_ALASKA_NATIVE:
    text: AMERICAN_INDIAN_OR_ALASKA_NATIVE
    description: A person having origins in any of the original peoples of North and
      South America (including Central America) and who maintains tribal affiliation
      or community attachment. (OMB)
    meaning: OMOP:8657
  ASIAN:
    text: ASIAN
    description: A person having origins in any of the original peoples of the Far
      East, Southeast Asia, or the Indian subcontinent, including for example, Cambodia,
      China, India, Japan, Korea, Malaysia, Pakistan, the Philippine Islands, Thailand,
      and Vietnam. (OMB)
    meaning: OMOP:8515
  BLACK_OR_AFRICAN_AMERICAN:
    text: BLACK_OR_AFRICAN_AMERICAN
    description: A person having origins in any of the Black racial groups of Africa.
      Terms such as "Haitian" or "Negro" can be used in addition to "Black or African
      American". (OMB)
    meaning: OMOP:8516
  NATIVE_HAWAIIAN_OR_OTHER_PACIFIC_ISLANDER:
    text: NATIVE_HAWAIIAN_OR_OTHER_PACIFIC_ISLANDER
    description: Denotes a person having origins in any of the original peoples of
      Hawaii, Guam, Samoa, or other Pacific Islands. The term covers particularly
      people who identify themselves as part-Hawaiian, Native Hawaiian, Guamanian
      or Chamorro, Carolinian, Samoan, Chuukese (Trukese), Fijian, Kosraean, Melanesian,
      Micronesian, Northern Mariana Islander, Palauan, Papua New Guinean, Pohnpeian,
      Polynesian, Solomon Islander, Tahitian, Tokelauan, Tongan, Yapese, or Pacific
      Islander, not specified.
    meaning: OMOP:8557
  UNKNOWN:
    text: UNKNOWN
    description: Not known, not observed, not recorded, or refused.
    meaning: OMOP:8552
  WHITE:
    text: WHITE
    description: Denotes person with European, Middle Eastern, or North African ancestral
      origin who identifies, or is identified, as White.
    meaning: OMOP:8527