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Standard Name: Scholarship Program Exchange Demographic Criteria List
Standard ID: NSPA-SPE-DC-1.0-1
Issued By: NSPA
Version: 1.0d-1 (Initial Release Version)
Obsoletes: --
Obsoleted By: --

Overview

The purpose of the NSPA-SPE-DC list is to define and standardize values used to refer unambiguously to demographic criteria in the context of scholarship eligibility and applications.

Usage

In the Scholarship Exchange, demographic criteria includes coding for concepts such as gender, ethnicity, race, heritage, and ancestry. These values are inclusive of how eligibility criteria are actually stated today by program providers, and we work hard to minimize offense. Awkwardly, this well-meaning effort to connect scholars with opportunities for which they might be eligible causes unintended offense — with an ideal scholarship candidate sometimes objecting to the terms used by a program in describing their eligibility.

Gender

Gender is defined as how an individual identifies with male and female characteristics in their social construct. This may or may not align with one’s biological sex. A person’s gender is separate from their sexual orientation.

Race

Race is explained as “a division of mankind possessing traits that are transmissible by descent and sufficient to characterize it as a distinct human type”. Race(s) are self-identifiable and individuals can identify with more than one. The current list entries are harmonized with the U.S. Census Bureau list of races.

Ancestry

Ancestry refers to one’s heritage or line of descent. Individuals may identify with more than one ancestry. The primary values from this list were based on scholarships actually seen, but normalized against the most common entries in the U.S. Census Bureau last of ancestries.

References

In an effort to be inclusive and comprehensive, the following information was referenced for the code list: 

The code list aligns with the values used by the U.S. Census Bureau for consistency and standardization purposes.

List of Demographic Criteria Codes

Demographic Hierarchy

Synonym List

Gender | Male

Gender | FemaleGender

LGBTQIA+ | Intersex

Gender LGBTQIA+ | Transgender Male to Female

Transgender Woman | Trans Woman

Gender LGBTQIA+ | Transgender Female to Male

Transgender Man | Trans Man

Gender LGBTQIA+ | Other TransgenderGender Identity

Trans | TransgenderGender Identity Trans*

LGBTQIA+ | Genderqueer

Non-binary

Gender Identity | Other

Sexual Orientation | Lesbian

Sexual Orientation LGBTQIA+ | Lesbian

LGBTQIA+ | Gay

Sexual Orientation LGBTQIA+ | BisexualSexual Orientation

LGBTQIA+ | AsexualSexual Orientation | Other

LGBTQIA+ | Prefer to Self-Identify

Race | American Indian or Alaska Native

Race | Alaska Native

Race | American Indian

Race | Asian

Race | Black or African American

Race | Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander

Race | Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander | Native Hawaiian

Race | White

Ancestry | Albanian

Ancestry | Arabic

Ancestry | Armenian

Ancestry | Austrian

Ancestry | Belgian

Ancestry | Brazilian

Ancestry | British

Ancestry | Bohemian

Ancestry | Cambodian

Ancestry | Cherokee

Ancestry | Chinese

Ancestry | Colombian

Ancestry | Croatian

Ancestry | Cuban

Ancestry | Czech

Czechoslovakian

Ancestry | Danish

Ancestry | Dominican

Ancestry | Dutch

Ancestry | Egyptian

Ancestry | English

Ancestry | Ecuadorian

Ancestry | Filipino

Ancestry | Fijian

Ancestry | Finnish

Ancestry | French

Ancestry | German

Ancestry | Greek

Ancestry | Guatemalan

Ancestry | Guyanese

Ancestry | Haitian

Ancestry | Hmong

Ancestry | Honduran

Ancestry | Hungarian

Ancestry | Irish

Ancestry | Italian

Ancestry | Jamaican

Ancestry | Japanese

Ancestry | Jewish

Ancestry | Korean

Ancestry | Laotian

Ancestry | Lebanese

Ancestry | Libyan

Ancestry | Lithuanian

Ancestry | Mexican

Mexicano | Mexican American

Ancestry | Navajo

Ancestry | Nicaraguan

Ancestry | Nigerian

Ancestry | Norwegian

Ancestry | Pakistani

Ancestry | Panamanian

Ancestry | Pennsylvania German

Ancestry | Peruvian

Ancestry | Polish

Ancestry | Portuguese

Ancestry | Puerto Rican

Ancestry | Romanian

Ancestry | Russian

Ancestry | Scottish

Ancestry | Salvadoran

Ancestry | Samoan

Ancestry | Serbian

Ancestry | Slovak

Ancestry | Slovene

Ancestry | Somalian

Ancestry | South Asian

Ancestry | South Asian | Afghani

Ancestry | South Asian | Indian

Ancestry | South Asian | Iranian

Ancestry | South Asian | Nepali

Ancestry | Spanish

Spanish American | Spaniard

Ancestry | Sudanese

Ancestry | Swedish

Ancestry | Swiss

Ancestry | Syrian

Ancestry | Taiwanese

Ancestry | Thai

Ancestry | Trinidadian

Ancestry | Turkish

Ancestry | Ukrainian

Ancestry | Vietnamese

Ancestry | Welsh

Ancestry | Yemeni

Ancestry | Yugoslavian

Ethnicity | Hispanic

Other | Other