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Children's Health Insurance
Table 1. Health Insurance Coverage Status of Children and Type of Coverage: 1995
(Numbers in thousands)
Total Covered by health insurance Not covered
Total Private Medicaid
Number Percent Number Percent Number Percent Number Percent
ALL CHILDREN
Under 18 years 71,148 61,352 86.2 47,022 66.1 16,524 23.2 9,796 13.8
Age
Under 6 years 24,366 21,114 86.7 14,707 60.4 7,203 29.6 3,252 13.3
6 to 11 years 23,725 20,526 86.5 15,944 67.2 5,351 22.6 3,199 13.5
12 to 17 years 23,057 19,712 85.5 16,371 71.0 3,970 17.2 3,345 14.5
Race and Hispanic
Origin
White 55,858 48,355 86.6 39,632 71.0 10,207 18.3 7,504 13.4
Black 11,518 9,752 84.7 5,051 43.9 5,234 45.4 1,767 15.3
Hispanic origin1 10,307 7,545 73.2 3,952 38.3 3,857 37.4 2,762 26.8
POOR CHILDREN
Under 18 years 14,665 11,534 78.6 2,716 18.5 9,522 64.9 3,131 21.4
Age
Under 6 years 5,820 4,852 83.4 853 14.7 4,242 72.9 968 16.6
6 to 11 years 4,901 3,886 79.3 965 19.7 3,186 65.0 1,015 20.7
12 to 17 years 3,944 2,795 70.9 898 22.8 2,094 53.1 1,149 29.1
Race and Hispanic
Origin
White 8,981 6,673 74.3 1,785 19.9 5,267 58.6 2,308 25.7
Black 4,761 4,069 85.5 691 14.5 3,636 76.4 693 14.6
Hispanic origin1 4,080 2,945 72.2 413 10.1 2,603 63.8 1,136 27.8
1Persons of Hispanic origin may be of any race.
Contact the Demographic Call Center Staff at 301-763-2422 or 1-866-758-1060 (toll free) or visit
ask.census.gov for further information on Health Insurance Data.
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, Housing and Household Economic Statistics Division
Last Revised: December 07, 2004
