Datatypes

Race or ethnicity

ID race_ethnicity

DatatypePersonal data (PII)categoricalDraft

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Race or ethnic group of a person as recorded in surveys, health records and administrative data, for example Asian, Black or African American, or Hispanic or Latino. Values follow a local classification, such as the US Census categories, and are sometimes one-letter codes. Racial or ethnic origin is a special category of personal data under the GDPR.

Categories
Person related, Personally identifiable information
Countries
Global (not tied to a country)
Languages
English
W3C DPV
pd:Ethnicity
FTA
PERSON.RACE_ABBR_EN, PERSON.RACE_EN
Quality
75/100 · missing: regexp, negative example
Metacrafter rules
no detection rule yet
Supported by tools
Collibra Data Classification, Databricks Unity Catalog data classification, FTA (Fast Text Analysis), IBM Knowledge Catalog (IBM watsonx.data intelligence), Snowflake sensitive data classification

Examples

ValueDescription
Asian
Black or African American
Hispanic or Latino

Translations

LanguageNameDescription
RussianРаса или этническая принадлежность

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