Datatypes

US EIN (Employer Identification Number)

ID usein

An Employer Identification Number (EIN) is also known as a Federal Tax Identification Number, and is used to identify a business entity. Generally, businesses need an EIN.

Categories

Personally identifiable information, Person related

Countries

United States

Languages

English

AutoType benchmark

ein

HL7 FHIR identifier system

urn:oid:2.16.840.1.113883.4.4

FTA

IDENTITY.EIN_US

Google DLP

US_EMPLOYER_IDENTIFICATION_NUMBER

Schema.org

taxID

python-stdnum

stdnum.us.ein

Wikidata

P1297

FIBO

employer identification number (EIN, FEIN)

ORG-ID.guide

US-EIN

Quality

90/100 · missing: negative example, translation

Metacrafter rules

4 rules (2 by field name, 2 by value)

• useinfield field, pii/us/us_pii.yaml
• useinvalue data, pii/us/us_pii.yaml
• us_persons_useinfield field, us/us_persons.yaml
• us_persons_useinvalue data, us/us_persons.yaml

Supported by tools

Auto-Type, Collibra Data Classification, FTA (Fast Text Analysis), Google Cloud Sensitive Data Protection (DLP), IBM Knowledge Catalog (IBM watsonx.data intelligence), metacrafter, Nightfall AI, python-stdnum, Snowflake sensitive data classification

Regular expression

^\d{2}-?\d{7}$

Python re syntax.

Examples

Sources

• other: https://www.irs.gov/businesses/small-businesses-self-employed/employer-id-numbers
• wikipedia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Employer_Identification_Number
• wikidata: https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Property:P1297

Use this record

• Page URL: http://registry.apicrafter.io/datatype/usein
• JSON: API v1 · legacy shape (used by metacrafter) · Markdown (for LLMs)
• Improve it: edit data/datatypes/US/persons/usein.yaml on GitHub