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Define Federal Ethnicity and Race Codes



Following are details about manually defining Federal Ethnicity and Race Codes. Alternatively, you can add Federal Ethnicity and Race settings via a quick import; see Knowledgebase article 57884 on PowerSource.

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Federal Ethnicity and Race Settings

Data Element

Description             

Table]FieldName

Used in these Reports

Ethnicity Decline to Specify: Allow/Label                              

Select the checkbox to allow students to decline to specify ethnicity.

Enter Ethnicity Missing to display as the label for the checkbox on the Demographics student page.

[Prefs]FRE_AllowDeclineEthnicity

[Prefs]FRE_DeclineEthnicityText

Stu Info

All Pre-ID

Phys Fit

Cal-PASS

UC Direct

Blue Card

CASEMIS A

CASEMIS D

Staff Demo

CBEDS-ORA A

CBEDS SIF

CDIF

CRDC

Perkins E-1

Race Decline to Specify: Allow/Label

Select the checkbox to allow students to decline to specify race.

Enter Race Missing to display as the label for the checkbox on the Demographics student page.

[Prefs]FRE_AllowDeclineRace

[Prefs]FRE_DeclineRaceText

Stu Info

All Pre-ID

Phys Fit

Cal-PASS

UC Direct

Blue Card

CASEMIS A

CASEMIS D

Staff Demo

CBEDS-ORA A

CBEDS SIF

CDIF

CRDC

Perkins E-1


Federal Race Categories

Data Element                                                                                       

Description

Table]FieldName                         

Used in these Reports

Code

Enter the federal race category code.

[Gen]Name

[Gen]Cat=federalrace

Stu Info

All Pre-ID

Phys Fit

Cal-PASS

UC Direct

CA Blue Card

CASEMIS A

CASEMIS D

Staff Demo

CBEDS-ORA A

CBEDS SIF

CDIF

CRDC

Perkins E-1

Description

Enter the federal race category description.

[Gen]Value

[Gen]Cat=federalrace

Required Setup

Sort Order

When you click Submit, the Federal Ethnicity and Race Settings page appears. Enter a sort order for the federal race category.

[Gen]SortOrder

[Gen]Cat=federalrace

Required Setup


District Race Codes

Data Element                                                     

Description                                                                                                                  

Table]FieldName

Used in these Reports

Code

Enter the district race code.

[Gen]Name

[Gen]Cat=race

Stu Info

All Pre-ID

Phys Fit

Blue Card

CASEMIS A

CASEMIS D

CRDC

Perkins E-1

Description

Enter the district race description.

[Gen]ValueT

[Gen]Cat=race

Required Setup

Federal Category

Choose the associated federal race category from the pop-up menu.

[Gen]Value

[Gen]Cat=race

Required Setup

Alt Race Code

Enter an alternate, equivalent race code.

Note: Not currently used in California.

[Gen]Value2

[Gen]Cat=race

N/A


Scheduling/Reporting Ethnicity Codes

(OPTIONAL)

California uses Federal Ethnicity and Race for state reporting. The data entry of Scheduling/Reporting Ethnicity is optional.

Data Element                                      

Description                                               

[Table]FieldName   

Used in these reports

Description

Enter the ethnicity description.

[Gen]Cat=ethnicity

[Gen]Name

Not Required

SIF Ethnicity Code

Enter the SIF Ethnicity Code.

[Gen]Cat=ethnicity

[Gen]Value2

Not Required