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Figure 1.3. Age-sex-adjusted
percent of persons without health insurance coverage, by race/ethnicity: all ages, 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. Estimates are age-sex-adjusted to the 2000 U.S. 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 June 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 30.6% for Hispanic persons, 10.5% for white non-Hispanic
persons, and 16.4% 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.
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