California Cancer Reporting System Standards, Volume III

 

DC Spanish Origin

IDENTIFIERS

CCR ID

NAACCR ID

E1575

None. State Requestor.

DESCRIPTION

This field is used to denote those persons of Spanish origin as stated on the death certificate. Persons of Spanish origin may be of any race.

LEVELS

Patients

LENGTH

1

ALLOWABLE VALUES

Any

SOURCE

Blank when patient created.

UPDATE

Manual change or automatic upload from death clearance passive follow-up documents only.

CONSOLIDATED DATA EXTRACT

Yes

INTERFIELD EDITS

None

HISTORICAL CHANGES

3/17/97

This new field was added in order to capture Spanish Origin as recorded on vital statistics records in a separate field.

Unknown

At some unknown date, probably 2010 data changes, the name was updated to DC Spanish Origin.