The student’s self-reported ethnicity recorded at admission. A student may can have multiple ethnicities.
Values
[Code] - [Description]
WHITE - White
CENAMER - Central American
BLACK - Black/African American
HISP - Hispanic
OTHWH - Other White
ASIAN - Asian
A full list of all values available for ETHNICITY can be found ETHNIC_GRP_TBL.
Example
ASIAN
Notes
The ETHNICITY_DTL table includes the Hispanic or Latin Y/N field (HISP_LATINO).
This is not IPEDS ethnicity. IPEDS ethnicity encapsulates self-reported ethnicities into pre-defined reporting groups for official reporting.
The DIVERS_ETHNIC table contains the Primary Indicator if student identifies one of multiple ethnicities as their primary ethnicity. Students do not have to define a primary ethnicity.