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Figure 1.2. Percent
of persons under age 65 years without health insurance coverage, by age group and sex: United States,
January–June 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 567 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.
DATA SOURCE: Based on
data collected from January through June in the Family Core component of
the 2002 National Health Interview Survey.
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For both sexes combined, the percent of persons
uninsured was highest among persons aged 18-24 years (27.3%) and lowest among
persons under age 18 years (9.8%) and 45-64 years (12.3%). Starting at age
18 years, younger adults were more likely than older adults to lack health
insurance coverage. 