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Summarize the patients' self-reported race and ethnicity into four groups: "Non-Hispanic White", "Non-Hispanic Black", "Hispanic", and "Other".

Usage

data(derived_raceEthnicity)

Format

A tibble with 3,560 rows and columns:

who

Patient ID

race

Self-reported race. Options are "White", "Black", "Other", and "Refused/missing".

is_hispanic

Self-reported Hispanic/Latino ethnicity.

race_ethnicity

Derived composite marker of race and ethnicity.

Details

This data set contains a summary of self-reported race and ethnicity in four levels. Of note, the "Other" category includes 2 participants who marked "no" to the question of Hispanic/Latino ethnicity but refused to answer their race. Also, the "Other" category includes 33 participants for whom all information about race and ethnicity is missing. This data set is a derived data set; the script used to create it is "scripts/create_raceEthnicity_20220816.R".