---
id: "race_ethnicity"
kind: "datatype"
status: "draft"
is_pii: true
categories: ["persons", "pii"]
langs: ["en"]
quality: 75
url: "http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/race_ethnicity"
---

# Race or ethnicity (`race_ethnicity`)

> **Draft.** Draft records have not been reviewed yet and may be incomplete or wrong; do not treat them as authoritative for legal or compliance decisions.

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.

- Personal data (PII): yes
- Categories: Person related (persons), Personally identifiable information (pii)
- Countries: global
- Languages: English (en)
- Classification: categorical

## Examples

- `Asian`
- `Black or African American`
- `Hispanic or Latino`

## Mappings

- dpv: `pd:Ethnicity`
- fta: `PERSON.RACE_ABBR_EN`, `PERSON.RACE_EN`

## Supported by tools

- `collibra`
- `databricks`
- `fta`
- `ibmknowledgecatalog`
- `snowflake`

## Translations

- ru: Раса или этническая принадлежность

## Sources

- wikipedia: <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_United_States_census>
- other: <https://github.com/tsegall/fta/blob/main/SemanticTypes.md>

## Quality

Score 75/100. Missing: regexp, negative example.

JSON: <http://registry.apicrafter.io/api/v1/datatypes/race_ethnicity.json> · Edit: <https://github.com/apicrafter/metacrafter-registry/edit/main/data/datatypes/any/persons/race_ethnicity.yaml>