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OMB Ethnicity Categories

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  "url" : "http://fhir.org/guides/argonaut/ValueSet/omb-ethnicity",
  "name" : "OMB Ethnicity Categories",
  "status" : "draft",
  "publisher" : "Argonaut Project",
  "contact" : [
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  ],
  "date" : "2016-08-30T00:00:00+10:00",
  "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).",
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        "concept" : [
          {
            "code" : "2135-2",
            "display" : "Hispanic or Latino"
          },
          {
            "code" : "2186-5",
            "display" : "Non Hispanic or Latino"
          }
        ]
      }
    ]
  }
}