California Cancer Reporting System Standards, Volume III

Computed Ethnicity

IDENTIFIERS

DESCRIPTION

This code is used to denote those persons with Spanish surname as recognized by the computer from tables of Spanish names. It conforms to the codes used by NAACCR for Computed Ethnicity.

LEVELS

Patients

LENGTH

1

ALLOWABLE VALUES

For SEER, blanks are required for all cases diagnosed before 1994 and blanks are not allowed for any case diagnosed 1994 and after. Other registries may have computed this item for earlier years.

SOURCE

Computer generate:

Move 0 to Computed Ethnicity.

If Not Male (Sex <> 1)

If there is no Name--Maiden

    Move 3 to Computed Ethnicity

Else If Name--Maiden1 is Spanish

    Move 7 to Computed Ethnicity

Else

    Move 1 to Computed Ethnicity

Else (Male Sex = 1)

        Move 2 to Computed Ethnicity.

If Computed Ethnicity = 7

  Stop.

Else

    If Name--Last1 is Spanish

If Computed Ethnicity = 3

    Move 6 to Computed Ethnicity

Else if Computed Ethnicity = 1

    Move 4 to Computed Ethnicity

Else (Hispanic male)

    Move 5 to Computed Ethnicity

If Name is hyphenated and the hyphenated name is not found on the Spanish Surname table, look for each portion of the name on the Spanish Surname table.

UPDATE

Update with appropriate values using Spanish surname table (see Appendix O of Volume I).

Note: If Computed Ethnicity changes, you may need to update RACE-RECODE-CAL.

CONSOLIDATED DATA EXTRACT

Generate the code depending on the value in the Computed Ethnicity field.

If 9, generate 0: No match yet done

If 0, generate 2: Non-Hispanic Last Name, no check on Maiden Name

If 6, generate 5: Hispanic Last Name, no check on Maiden Name

For cases diagnosed prior to 1993 submit blank.

INTERFIELD EDITS

None

HISTORICAL CHANGES