2005 National Healthcare Quality Report, Data Tables. Table 1.16a

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Table 1.16a
Percent of adults age 18 and over with diabetes who reported having a hemoglobin A1c measurement at least once in the past year, United States, 2000 and 2002

		2002			2000
Population group		Total population (in thousands)^g	Percent^h	Standard error	Total population(in thousands)^g	Percent^h	Standard error

Total		14,015	90.4	0.9	12,608	89.9	1.3

Race^a	White	10,765	90.6	1.0	- -	- -	- -
	Black	2,368	88.4	2.1	- -	- -	- -
	American Indian/Alaska Native	DSU	DSU	DSU	- -	- -	- -
	Asian	DSU	DSU	DSU	- -	- -	- -
	Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander	DSU	DSU	DSU	- -	- -	- -
	Multiple races	DSU	DSU	DSU	- -	- -	- -

Ethnicity^b	Hispanic, all races	1,753	86.5	2.4	1,633	85.7	3.2
	Non-Hispanic, all races	12,262	90.9	0.9	10,975	90.5	1.3
	Non-Hispanic, White	9,093	91.3	1.1	8,415	91.1	1.4
	Non-Hispanic, Black	2,359	88.3	2.1	2,081	86.0	3.7
	Non-Hispanic, other	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU

Gender	Male	6,914	91.6	1.2	5,872	90.0	1.8
Gender	Female	7,101	89.2	1.2	6,736	89.7	1.8

Age	18-44	1,884	83.8	2.8	2,072	83.4	3.9
	45-64	6,386	92.9	1.1	5,309	92.3	1.6
	65 and over	5,745	89.9	1.5	5,227	90.2	2.0

Education^c	Less than high school	4,511	87.1	1.8	3,986	87.3	2.5
	High school graduate	4,554	91.6	1.2	4,211	89.8	2.3
	At least some college	4,808	92.0	1.4	4,245	92.0	1.7

Employment status^d	Employed	5,124	91.8	1.3	4,726	89.0	1.8
Employment status^d	Not employed	3,146	88.6	2.0	2,655	90.8	2.9

Health insurance, age 18-64	Any private	5,677	92.9	1.1	5,330	90.8	1.9
	Public only	1,570	87.5	2.9	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Uninsured	1,023	83.0	3.9	DSU	DSU	DSU

Health insurance, age 65 and over	Medicare only	1,730	86.7	3.1	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Medicare and private	3,060	90.4	2.0	2,749	91.4	2.6
	Medicare and other public	924	94.0	2.3	DSU	DSU	DSU

Family income^e	Negative or poor	1,801	89.1	2.4	1,744	88.1	3.0
	Near poor/low income	3,454	89.9	1.9	3,085	88.4	2.9
	Middle income	4,112	88.2	1.7	3,610	89.5	2.2
	High income	4,647	93.0	1.3	4,168	91.7	2.1

Residence location^f	Metropolitan-large	7,127	91.0	1.2	6,417	90.6	1.6
	Metropolitan-small	4,049	91.1	1.5	3,457	88.9	2.7
	Micropolitan	1,872	85.1	2.8	1,706	86.8	3.5
	Noncore	967	93.3	2.7	DSU	DSU	DSU

Perceived health status	Excellent, very good or good	8,038	90.2	1.2	7,588	90.2	1.5
Perceived health status	Fair or poor	5,977	90.7	1.5	5,020	89.2	2.2

^a Prior to 2002, racial categories were not directly comparable to those used for 2002 data. Thus, race data for 2000 are not shown.

^b Beginning in 2002, individuals could report multiple races. For 2002 and later years, Non-Hispanic White and Black categories exclude multiple race individuals and are not directly comparable to data from previous years.

^c "Less than high school" refers to fewer than 12 years of education; "high school graduate", 12 years of education; and "at least some college", more than 12 years of education.

^d Employment status for persons age 18-64 only.

^e "Negative or poor" refers to household incomes below the Federal poverty line; "near poor/low income", over the poverty line to just below 200 percent of the poverty line; "middle income", 200 percent to just below 400 percent of the poverty line; and "high income", 400 percent of the poverty line and over.

^f See the MEPS entry in the Data Sources section of the Measures Specifications Appendix for more information.

^g Total adult diabetes population, age 18 and over. Numbers may not add to total due to missing or rounding.

^h Estimates exclude cases where the respondent did not know whether the test was provided or a response was not ascertained by the interviewer (about one-fifth of the cases each year). Without excluding these cases, the estimated overall percent of persons who definitively had the test was 72.13 percent in 2002 and 69.9 percent in 2000. These lower estimates can be interpreted as the lowest possible estimated percent having the test, while the higher estimates shown in the table assume that the estimated percent of persons with a test would be similar for sample persons without a response (if responses were obtained) as for those with a response.

DSU - Data do not meet the criteria for statistical reliability, data quality or confidentiality.

- - Data not shown. See footnote a.

Source:Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Center for Financing, Access and Cost Trends, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey.

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