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 1,159 persons with unknown health insurance status (about 1% of respondents). The data on health insurance status were cleaned and edited using an automated system based on 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 manual editing procedures used for the final data files. Estimates for this Healthy People 2010 leading health indicator are age-adjusted to the projected year 2000 standard population using three age groups: less than 18 years, 18-44 years, and 45-64 years.

DATA SOURCE: Family Core component of the 2001 National Health Interview Survey.

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