What this card shows
The Ethnicity - % populated card shows the percentage of your patient list that has an ethnicity recorded, as a single number.
Ethnicity is often needed for regulatory returns and for reviewing how well your service reaches the population around you. This card tells you how much of your patient list you can report on.
Reading the card
The number is a percentage of your whole patient list, not a count of patients.
A patient counts as populated only if a real value is recorded. Blanks and not specified are both treated as not recorded, so choosing not specified does not raise the figure.
Ethnicity is not a required field when a patient is created, so this figure is usually below 100%.
There is no date filter. This is a snapshot of your whole patient list as it stands today.
The companion Ethnicity distribution card on the same dashboard shows the actual breakdown. Read the two together: the distribution only covers the share of patients counted here, so a low percentage on this card means the distribution is based on a small part of your patient list.
Where this data comes from
This comes from the Ethnicity field on each patient's record. Open a patient, go to Patient information, and Ethnicity sits in the Identity section, below the name fields.
Ethnicity can also be set when the patient is first created. Recording it on an existing patient raises this percentage the next time the card is loaded.
Opening this card
In wawa, open Insights from the sidebar, then go to Standard Reports and select Patients, then Patient core demographics. The Ethnicity card is near the top of the dashboard.