Subclassification of maternal ethnicity in TARGet Kids!
| Ethnicity | Response options on TARGet Kids! questionnaire |
| European | Eastern European (eg, Polish, Russian, Croatian) Western European (eg, English, French, Portuguese) Australian or New Zealander |
| East Asian | East Asian (Chinese) East Asian (Korean) East Asian (Japanese) |
| Southeast Asian | Southeast Asian (eg, Vietnamese, Malaysian, Filipino) Oceania (eg, Samoan, Fijian) |
| South Asian | South Asian (eg, East Indian, Pakistani, Sri Lankan) Indian-Caribbean |
| West Asian/North African | West Asian (eg, Iranian, Afghan, Palestinian) North African (eg, Moroccan, Algerian, Egyptian, Sudanese) |
| African and Caribbean | East African (eg, Ethiopian, Kenyan, Somali) Middle African (eg, Cameroonian, Chadian, Congolese) Southern African (eg, Botswana, South African) Western African (eg, Ghanaian, Nigerian, Guinean) Caribbean Region (eg, Jamaican, Guyana, Trinidadian/Tobagonian) |
| Latin American | Latin American (eg, Argentinean, Costa Rican, Mexican) |
| Indigenous | North American Indigenous (Inuit, Métis, First Nations) |
| Mixed | Two or more of the listed ethnic groups above |