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1.3. Age-sex-adjusted percent of persons without health insurance
coverage, by
race/ethnicity: all ages, United States, 2001
NOTES: A person was
defined as uninsured if he or she did not have any private health
insurance, Medicaid, State-sponsored or other government-sponsored health
plan, Medicare or military plan at the time of the interview. A person was
also defined as uninsured if he or she had only Indian Health Service
coverage, or had only a private plan that paid for one type of service
such as accidents or dental care. The analysis excluded 1,247 persons with
unknown health insurance status. The data on health insurance status were
electronically cleaned or edited using logic checks and keyword searches.
The resulting estimates of persons not having health insurance coverage
are generally 0.1 percentage point lower than those based on the final data files.
Estimates are age-sex-adjusted to a year 2000 standard population using
three age groups: under 18 years, 18-64 years, and 65 years and over.
DATA SOURCE: Family
Core component of the 2001 National Health Interview Survey.
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After
adjusting for age and sex among the three racial/ethnic groups, Hispanic
persons were most likely to be uninsured (31.6%), followed by black
non-Hispanic persons (17.3%) and white non-Hispanic persons (10.3%).
