| Category and Code Set | Total Number of Categories | Estimated Breakdown of Categories by OMB Race and Hispanic Ethnicity Category |
|---|---|---|
| CDC/HL7 Race and Ethnicity Code Set 1.0 (2000) | Over 925 categories | Over 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 categories |
| Census Ancestry Codes | 993 categories | 212 broad "ancestry descriptions" Approximately 780 more detailed response categories |
| Massachusetts Superset | 173 categories | 31 major ethnicities categories 140 sub-ethnicities categories |
| Kaiser Permanente Granular Ethnicity (2009) | 268 categories | 59 American Indian or Alaska Native categories 206 additional ethnicities |
| Wisconsin Cancer Reporting System Code Manual (2008) | 648 categories | 371 American Indian or Alaska Native categories 129 White categories 37 Black or African American categories 41 NHOPI categories 14 Other Race categories |
| Contra Costa Health Plan Race and Ethnicity | 143 categories | 130 categories from the CDC/HL7 Code Set 9 additional ethnicity categories: American, Bosnian, Brazilian, Kurdish, Mixtec, Portuguese, Punjabi, Russian, and Yao, Mien |
OMB = Office of Management and Budget
CDC/HL7 = Centers for Disease Control and Prevention/Health Level 7
Note: 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.
