Ethnicities

Hello all,

Cross posting this from FHIR Implementation Guide.

In response to the following post infocentral.infoway-inforoute.ca/en/forum/266-fhir-implementations/3110-baseline-canadian-fhir-profiles-entities-stream-calls#5525, I have posted a comment for consideration:

Hi,

Has the Statistics Canada list of ethnic origins reported in 2016 been looked at as a possible guide to narrow the list of supported ethnicities in the value set in Terminology Gateway? Here is the link: www12.statcan.gc.ca/census-recensement/2016/dp-pd/prof/details/page.cfm?Lang=E&Geo1=PR&Code1=01&Geo2=PR&Code2=01&Data=Count&SearchText=Canada&SearchType=Begins&SearchPR=01&B1=Ethnic+origin

Additionally, has the full list of Statistics Canada ethnic origins been looked at to see what a full list for ethnicities might look like? www23.statcan.gc.ca/imdb/p3VD.pl?Function=getVD&TVD=402936&CVD=402938&CPV=3.4&CST=18092017&CLV=2&MLV=3

Lastly, has the Statistics Canada list of ethnic origins been considered as a possible coding system? (To note: I have sent an inquiry to Statistics Canada re: RFC process for their list, how stable their codes are, and maintenance/publication frequency and I'm awaiting for their response).

Thoughts?

Thanks
Finnie