N C H S - N H I S - Table 2.1 (Released 9/2002)

Table 2.1. Percent of adults aged 18 years and over with a usual place to go for medical care by sex, age, and race/ethnicity: United States, quarter one 2002

Characteristic	Percent	95% confidence interval
Total	85.1	84.1-86.1
Sex Men Women	80.2 89.7	78.5-81.9 88.6-90.7
Age 18-24 years 25-44 years 45-64 years 65 years and over	71.2 81.1 90.3 96.4	67.4-74.9 79.5-82.8 89.0-91.7 95.3-97.4
Race/ethnicity Hispanic White non-Hispanic Black non-Hispanic	70.2 87.9 83.9	66.9-73.5 86.8-89.1 81.2-86.6

NOTES: The usual place to go for medical care does not include a hospital emergency room. The analysis excluded 41 persons with unknown usual place to go for medical care.

DATA SOURCE: Based on data collected from January through March in the Sample Adult Core component of the 2002 National Health Interview Survey.

Men were less likely than women to have a usual place to go for medical care.

Persons aged 18-24 years were less likely than those in other age groups to have a usual place to go for medical care.

Hispanic persons were less likely than white non-Hispanic and black non-Hispanic persons to have a usual place to go for medical care. Adjusting for age and sex did not change this result.

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