DC Race

IDENTIFIERS

CCR ID	NAACCR ID
E1574	None. State Requestor.

DESCRIPTION

Race/ethnicity of the patient as stated on the death certificate.

LEVELS

Patients

LENGTH

2

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 race as recorded on vital statistics records in a separate field.