N C H S - N H I S - Table 2.2 (Released 7/2002)

Table 2.2. Percent of children under 18 years old with a usual place to go for medical care, by sex, age, and race/ethnicity: United States, 2001

Characteristic	Unweighted sample size	Weighted percent	95% confidence interval
Total	13,569	94.2	93.7-94.8
Sex Boys Girls	6,980 6,589	94.3 94.1	93.6-95.1 93.4-94.9
Age Less than 6 years 6-10 years 11-13 years 14-17 years	4,697 3,567 2,155 3,150	95.9 94.0 94.0 92.3	95.1-96.7 93.0-94.9 92.9-95.2 91.2-93.4
Race/ethnicity Hispanic White non-Hispanic Black non-Hispanic	3,655 7,155 2,208	85.6 96.9 93.6	83.9-87.2 96.3-97.4 92.4-94.8

NOTES: The usual place to go for medical care does not include a hospital emergency room. The analysis excluded 168 persons with unknown usual place to go for medical care.

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

Over the four age groups, children aged 14-17 years were least likely to have a usual place to go for medical care.

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

Children were more likely than adults aged under 65 years to have a usual place to go for medical care.

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