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OMB Race Categories

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  <id value="omb-race"/>
  <text>
    <status value="generated"/>
  </text>
  <url value="http://fhir.org/guides/argonaut/ValueSet/omb-race"/>
  <name value="OMB Race Categories"/>
  <status value="active"/>
  <experimental value="true"/>
  <publisher value="Argonaut Project"/>
  <contact>
    <telecom>
      <system value="other"/>
      <value value="http://argonautwiki.hl7.org"/>
      <rank value="0"/>
    </telecom>
  </contact>
  <date value="2016-05-25T16:59:08+10:00"/>
  <description
               value="The codes for the concepts &#39;Unknown&#39; and  &#39;Asked but no answer&#39; and the the codes for the five race categories - &#39;American Indian&#39; or &#39;Alaska Native&#39;, &#39;Asian&#39;, &#39;Black or African American&#39;, &#39;Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander&#39;, and &#39;White&#39; - 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) ."/>
  <immutable value="false"/>
  <extensible value="false"/>
  <compose>
    <include>
      <system value="http://hl7.org/fhir/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://hl7.org/fhir/v3/NullFlavor"/>
      <concept>
        <code value="UNK"/>
        <display value="Unknown"/>
      </concept>
      <concept>
        <code value="ASKU"/>
        <display value="Asked but no answer"/>
      </concept>
    </include>
  </compose>
</ValueSet>