Monitoring the Healthcare Safety Net

Book 1. Data for Metropolitan Areas

Key to Abbreviations

AbbreviationsDescription
-Indicates that data are not available at this area level. For example, estimates of the percent of the population that is uninsured can be made only at the state and MSA levels with our data, so counties, cities, and county residuals are coded "-."
No DataIndicates that data were not collected or processed for this specific area.
n/aIndicates that data should be available for this specific area, but are missing.
No HospIndicates that there is no hospital in the county.
One HospIndicates that there is only one hospital in county, so there is no meaningful analysis of this measure.
SuppressedIndicates that data have been suppressed to protect the identity of a single facility or to protect personal privacy (cell size less than 5 individuals).
Low PopIndicates that data are not presented because the small population size of the area prevents statistically meaningful analysis.

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