Figure 1.3.
Age-sex-adjusted percent of persons without health insurance coverage,
by race/ethnicity: all
ages, United States, quarter one 2002
NOTES: A person was
defined as uninsured if he or she did not have any private health
insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, State-sponsored or other
government-sponsored health plan, 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 313 persons with unknown health insurance status. The data on
health insurance status were 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 both automated and manual editing procedures used for
the final data files. Estimates are age-sex-adjusted to the projected year
2000 standard population using three age groups: under 18 years, 18-64
years, and 65 years and over.
DATA SOURCE: Based on
data collected from January through March in the Family Core component of
the 2002 National Health Interview Survey.
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After
adjusting for age and sex, the percent of uninsured was 29.7% for Hispanic
persons, 10.8% for white non-Hispanic persons, and 16.5% for black
non-Hispanic persons.
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Hispanic
persons were most likely to be uninsured, followed by black non-Hispanic
persons and white non-Hispanic persons. |