Ancestry in ESG data model

Base entity from which all Industry Data Model entities are derived.

Traits

Traits for this entity are listed here.

is.CDM.entityVersion

Parameter	Value	Data type	Explanation
versionNumber	"4.3"	string	semantic version number of the entity

is.localized.describedAs
Holds the list of language specific descriptive text for an object.

Parameter	Value	Data type	Explanation
localizedDisplayText	languageTag displayText en Base entity from which all Industry Data Model entities are derived. en One or more ethnic identifies that may be identified by the Individual. Source: US Bureau of Census This identification is based on self-identification; the data on ancestry represent self-classification by people according to the ancestry group(s) with which they most closely identify. Ancestry refers to a person's ethnic origin or descent, "roots," or heritage or the place of birth of the person or the person's parents or ancestors before their arrival in the United States. Some ethnic identities, such as "Egyptian" or "Polish" can be traced to geographic areas outside the United States, while other ethnicities such as "Pennsylvania Dutch" or "Cajun" evolved in the United States. The intent of the ancestry question was not to measure the degree of attachment the respondent had to a particular ethnicity. For example, a response of "Irish" might reflect total involvement in an "Irish" community or only a memory of ancestors several generations removed from the individual. The Census Bureau coded the responses through an automated review, edit, and coding operation. The open-ended write-in ancestry item was coded by subject-matter specialists into a numeric representation using a code list containing over 1,000 categories. The 1990 code list reflects the results of the Census Bureau's own research and consultations with many ethnic experts. Many decisions were made to determine the classification of responses. These decisions affected the grouping of the tabulated data. For example, the "Assyrian" category includes both responses of "Assyrian" and "Chaldean." The ancestry question allowed respondents to report one or more ancestry groups. While a large number of respondents listed a single ancestry, the majority of answers included more than one ethnic entry. Generally, only the first two responses reported were coded in 1990. If a response was in terms of a dual ancestry, for example, Irish-English, the person was assigned two codes, in this case one for Irish and another for English. However, in certain cases, multiple responses such as "French Canadian," "Greek Cypriote," and "Black Dutch" were assigned a single code reflecting their status as unique groups. If a person reported "English Irish French," only English and Irish were coded. Certain combinations of ancestries where the ancestry group is a part of another, such as "German-Bavarian," the responses were coded as a single ancestry using the smaller group ("Bavarian"). Also, responses such as "Polish-American" or "Italian-American" were coded and tabulated as a single entry ("Polish" or "Italian"). The Census Bureau accepted "American" as a unique ethnicity if it was given alone, with an ambiguous response, or with State names. If the respondent listed any other ethnic identity such as "Italian American," generally the "American" portion of the response was not coded. However, distinct groups such as "American Indian," "Mexican American," and "African American" were coded and identified separately because they represented groups who considered themselves different from those who reported as "Indian," "Mexican," or "African," respectively. In all tabulations, when respondents provided an unacceptable ethnic identity (for example, an uncodeable or unintelligible response such as "multi-national," "adopted," or "I have no idea"), the answer was included in "Ancestry not reported." The tabulations on ancestry are presented using two types of data presentations--one used total persons as the base, and the other used total responses as the base. The following are categories shown in the two data presentations: Presentation Based on Persons: Single Ancestries Reported--Includes all persons who reported only one ethnic group. Included in this category are persons with multiple-term responses such as "German-Bavarian" who are assigned a single code. Multiple Ancestries Reported--Includes all persons who reported more than one group and were assigned two ancestry codes. Ancestry Unclassified--Includes all persons who provided a response that could not be assigned an ancestry code because they provided nonsensical entries or religious responses. Presentations Based on Responses: Total Ancestries Reported--Includes the total number of ancestries reported and coded. If a person reported a multiple ancestry such as "French Danish," that response was counted twice in the tabulations--once in the "French" category and again in the "Danish" category. Thus, the sum of the counts in this type of presentation is not the total population but the total of all responses. First Ancestry Reported--Includes the first response of all persons who reported at least one codeable entry. For example, in this category, the count for "Danish" would include all those who reported only Danish and those who reported Danish first and then some other group. Second Ancestry Reported--Includes the second response of all persons who reported a multiple ancestry. Thus, the count for "Danish" in this category includes all persons who reported Danish as the second response, regardless of the first response provided. The Census Bureau identified hundreds of ethnic groups in the 1990 census. However, it was impossible to show information for every group in all census tabulations because of space constraints. Publications such as the 1990 CP-2, Social and Economic Characteristics and the 1990 CPH-3, Population and Housing Characteristics for Census Tracts and Block Numbering Areas reports show a limited number of groups based on the number reported and the advice received from experts. A more complete distribution of groups is presented in the 1990 Summary Tape File 4, supplementary reports, and a special subject report on ancestry. In addition, groups identified specifically in the questions on race and Hispanic origin (for example, Japanese, Laotian, Mexican, Cuban, and Spaniard), in general, are not shown separately in ancestry tabulations.	entity	a reference to the constant entity holding the list of localized text

is.identifiedBy
Names a specific identity attribute to use with an entity.

Parameter	Value	Data type	Explanation
attribute	Ancestry/(resolvedAttributes)/AncestryId	attribute

minimumObjectModelVersion
Minimum version of the object model required to fully understand the data schema used.

Parameter	Value	Data type	Explanation
versionNumber	"1.2.3"	string

is.IDM.modelVersion
Semantic version number of the IDM.

Parameter	Value	Data type	Explanation
versionNumber	"1.6.0"	string

has.schemaObjectIdentifier
The schema object has an identifier, which is a string, specified as the parameter of the trait. It allows writers to define other identification values.

Parameter	Value	Data type	Explanation
identifier	"{6A24FA44-5A19-45FD-8090-AC7D8267F44E}"	string	The identifier for the schema object. There's no uniqueness guarantee enforced by CDM. It's a contract between reader and writer of the schema.

is.nativeTo.businessArea
The name of the business area from which the entity originates.

Parameter	Value	Data type	Explanation
name	"Party"	string

is.localized.displayedAs
Holds the list of language specific display text for an object.

Parameter	Value	Data type	Explanation
localizedDisplayText	languageTag displayText en Ancestry	entity	a reference to the constant entity holding the list of localized text

has.entitySchemaAbstractionLevel
A level of abstraction assigned to an Entity schema. Logical schema descriptions use complex dataTypes, inheritance, and entities as attributes. Resolved descriptions contain none of those things, only final trait and attribute sets are shown. A composition schema manipulates, guides or restates parts of logical schemas to produce one resolved schema.

Parameter	Value	Data type	Explanation
level	"resolved"	string	Possible values: logical, composition, resolved

Attributes

Name	Description	First Included in Instance
AncestryId	The unique identifier of an Ancestry.	Ancestry
AncestryName	The name of an Ancestry.	Ancestry
AncestryDescription	The description of an Ancestry.	Ancestry

AncestryId

The unique identifier of an Ancestry.
First included in: Ancestry (this entity)

Properties

Name	Value
displayName	Ancestry ID
description	The unique identifier of an Ancestry.
isPrimaryKey	true
dataFormat	int32

Traits

List of traits for the AncestryId attribute are listed here.

is.dataFormat.integer
is.identifiedBy
Names a specific identity attribute to use with an entity.

Parameter	Value	Data type	Explanation
attribute	Ancestry/(resolvedAttributes)/AncestryId	attribute

has.schemaObjectIdentifier
The schema object has an identifier, which is a string, specified as the parameter of the trait. It allows writers to define other identification values.

Parameter	Value	Data type	Explanation
identifier	"{10B34623-90AE-4F30-94F8-C00C2FB50ABB}"	string	The identifier for the schema object. There's no uniqueness guarantee enforced by CDM. It's a contract between reader and writer of the schema.

is.localized.displayedAs
Holds the list of language specific display text for an object.

Parameter	Value	Data type	Explanation
localizedDisplayText	languageTag displayText en Ancestry ID	entity	a reference to the constant entity holding the list of localized text

is.localized.describedAs
Holds the list of language specific descriptive text for an object.

Parameter	Value	Data type	Explanation
localizedDisplayText	languageTag displayText en The unique identifier of an Ancestry.	entity	a reference to the constant entity holding the list of localized text

is.dataFormat.integer

AncestryName

The name of an Ancestry.
First included in: Ancestry (this entity)

Properties

Name	Value
displayName	Ancestry Name
description	The name of an Ancestry.
dataFormat	string
maximumLength	256
isNullable	true

Traits

List of traits for the AncestryName attribute are listed here.

is.dataFormat.character
is.dataFormat.big
Indicates an atomic but multi-unit version of a fundamental type such as a multi byte encoded character, a double precision float, a long integer.

is.dataFormat.array
Indicates a contiguous sequence of fundamental units that should be taken as a whole and considered one value. Array of Character is a String. Array of Byte is a Binary Object.

has.schemaObjectIdentifier
The schema object has an identifier, which is a string, specified as the parameter of the trait. It allows writers to define other identification values.

Parameter	Value	Data type	Explanation
identifier	"{533D600F-EF9F-489B-87B0-EE15166A8716}"	string	The identifier for the schema object. There's no uniqueness guarantee enforced by CDM. It's a contract between reader and writer of the schema.

is.nullable
The attribute value can be set to NULL.

is.localized.displayedAs
Holds the list of language specific display text for an object.

Parameter	Value	Data type	Explanation
localizedDisplayText	languageTag displayText en Ancestry Name	entity	a reference to the constant entity holding the list of localized text

is.localized.describedAs
Holds the list of language specific descriptive text for an object.

Parameter	Value	Data type	Explanation
localizedDisplayText	languageTag displayText en The name of an Ancestry.	entity	a reference to the constant entity holding the list of localized text

is.constrained
Maximum length or value constraints.

Parameter	Value	Data type	Explanation
maximumLength	"256"	integer

is.dataFormat.character
is.dataFormat.array
Indicates a contiguous sequence of fundamental units that should be taken as a whole and considered one value. Array of Character is a String. Array of Byte is a Binary Object.

AncestryDescription

The description of an Ancestry.
First included in: Ancestry (this entity)

Properties

Name	Value
displayName	Ancestry Description
description	The description of an Ancestry.
dataFormat	string
maximumLength	2048
isNullable	true

Traits

List of traits for the AncestryDescription attribute are listed here.

is.dataFormat.character
is.dataFormat.big
Indicates an atomic but multi-unit version of a fundamental type such as a multi byte encoded character, a double precision float, a long integer.

is.dataFormat.array
Indicates a contiguous sequence of fundamental units that should be taken as a whole and considered one value. Array of Character is a String. Array of Byte is a Binary Object.

has.schemaObjectIdentifier
The schema object has an identifier, which is a string, specified as the parameter of the trait. It allows writers to define other identification values.

Parameter	Value	Data type	Explanation
identifier	"{054F5419-3C6D-4B54-A58B-3366E23A9E94}"	string	The identifier for the schema object. There's no uniqueness guarantee enforced by CDM. It's a contract between reader and writer of the schema.

is.nullable
The attribute value can be set to NULL.

is.localized.displayedAs
Holds the list of language specific display text for an object.

Parameter	Value	Data type	Explanation
localizedDisplayText	languageTag displayText en Ancestry Description	entity	a reference to the constant entity holding the list of localized text

is.localized.describedAs
Holds the list of language specific descriptive text for an object.

Parameter	Value	Data type	Explanation
localizedDisplayText	languageTag displayText en The description of an Ancestry.	entity	a reference to the constant entity holding the list of localized text

is.constrained
Maximum length or value constraints.

Parameter	Value	Data type	Explanation
maximumLength	"2048"	integer

is.dataFormat.character
is.dataFormat.array
Indicates a contiguous sequence of fundamental units that should be taken as a whole and considered one value. Array of Character is a String. Array of Byte is a Binary Object.