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Figure 1.1. Percent of persons of
all ages without health insurance coverage: United States, 1997-2002
NOTES: A person was
defined as uninsured if he or she did not have any private health
insurance, Medicare, Medicaid, State Children’s Health Insurance Program,
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 persons with unknown health insurance status (about 1% of
respondents). The data on health insurance status were edited using an
automated system based on logic checks and keyword searches. For
comparability, the estimates for all years were created using these same
procedures. The resulting estimates of persons without 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. CI
is confidence interval.
DATA
SOURCE: Family Core component of the 1997-2002 National Health Interview
Surveys. The estimate for 2002 was based on data collected from January
through June.
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From January through June 2002, the total percent
of uninsured persons was 14.2% (95% CI = 13.5% - 14.8%), which is not
statistically different from 14.1% in 2001. 