This proposal is approved by PESC, February 2009.

Recommendation to use the IN1 loop NTE Segment for collecting new race and ethnicity information mandated by the US Department of Education’s National Center for Education Statistics:

The new ethnicity codes (only one is allowed) are

R for Hispanic or Latino

W for Not Hispanic or Latino

The new race codes (multiple values are allowed) are

Q Black or African American

S White

T American Indian or Alaska Native

U Asian

V Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander

The following are examples of the use of the NTE segment in the IN1 loop to transmit race and ethnicity information, assuming the data element separator is * and the segment separator of ~ . (NTE01 is not sent and the data are sent in the NTE02.)

NTE**Ethnicity=R;Race=S~ to show an Hispanic White and there are no other uses of this segment;

NTE**Ethnicity=W;Race=V~ to show a non Hispanic Native Hawaiian and there are no other uses of this segment;

NTE**Ethnicity=W;Race=ST~ to show a non Hispanic who is White and also American Indian and there are no other uses of this segment;

NTE**Ethnicity=R~ to show an Hispanic with no race code indicated and there are no other uses of this segment;

NTE**Race=QU~ to show a person who is Black and Asian, did not provide an ethnicity code and there are no other uses of this segment;

NTE**Ethnicity=R;Race=S;Florida student ID is 1234567~ to show a person who is a White Hispanic and the NTE segment is also used by schools in a specific state to include a student number specific to that state.