Central Distributor SID: Description of Data Elements

PrimLang - Primary language of patient

Documentation Sections:

General Notes

Uniform Values

State Specific Notes

General Notes

The principal language spoken (PrimLang) is retained as provided by the data source. The original values have not been recoded into uniform HCUP values and are source-specific.

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Uniform Values

Variable Description Value Value Description PrimLang Primary language of patient aaa State specific coding - See the "State Specific Notes" section for details

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State Specific Notes

Hawaii Beginning January 1, 2013, Hawaii reports Preferred Language Spoken. The Primary Language text was supplied in which we mapped them to the three character International Standards Organization (ISO) 639-2 Codes: Maryland Beginning with 2013, Maryland reports preferred language spoken which has been mapped to the three character International Standards Organization (ISO) 639-2 Codes. Michigan Beginning with 2016 data, Michigan reports preferred language spoken, which has been mapped to the three character International Standards Organization (ISO) 639-2 Codes Minnesota Beginning with 2016 data, Minnesota reports preferred language spoken, which has been mapped to the three character International Standards Organization (ISO) 639-2 Codes. New Jersey Beginning 2008 New Jersey has provided a three digit code to identify the primary language spoken by the patient using the International Standards Organization (ISO) 639-2 Codes. The Patient's Primary Language Spoken is required for all patients and must be a valid code on the list unless the patient's birth date equals the Admission Date. CODE LANGUAGE AFR Afrikaans AFA Afro-Asiatic languages unspecified ALB Albanian ARA Arabic ARM Armenian BEL Belarusian BEN Bengali BOS Bosnian BUL Bulgarian BUR Burmese CAU Caucasian languages unspecified CHI Chinese SCR Croatian CZE Czech DUT Dutch ENG English EST Estonian FRE French CPF French Creole GER German GRE Greek, Modern GUJ Gujarati HEB Hebrew HIN Hindi HMN Hmong-Mien HUN Hungarian INE Indo-European languages unspecified IND Indonesian ITA Italian JPN Japanese KAN Kannada KOR Korean KRO Kru LAO Lao LIT Lithuanian MAC Macedonian MAL Malayalam MAR Marathi MKH Mon-Khmer, Cambodian NAV Navajo NOR Norwegian PAN Panjabi PER Persian POL Polish POR Portuguese CPP Portuguese Creole RUM Romanian RUS Russian SCC Serbian SLA Slavic languages unspecified SLO Slovak SPA Spanish SWA Swahili SWE Swedish SYR Syriac TGL Tagalog TAM Tamil TEL Telugu THA Thai TUR Turkish UKR Ukrainian URD Urdu VIE Vietnamese YID Yiddish YOR Yoruba OTH Other languages

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