Figure
1.2. Percent of persons aged under 65 years without health insurancecoverage, by age group
and sex: United States, 2001
NOTES: A person was
defined as uninsured if he or she did not have any private health
insurance, Medicaid, State-sponsored or other government-sponsored health
plan, Medicare 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 1,159 persons with
unknown health insurance status. The data on health insurance status were
electronically cleaned or edited using 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 the final data files. CI is
confidence interval.
DATA SOURCE: Family
Core component of the 2001 National Health Interview Survey.
For
both sexes combined, the percent of persons uninsured was highest among
persons aged 18-24 years (28.9%, 95% CI = 27.7% - 30.2%) and lowest among
persons under 18 years (10.8%, 95% CI = 10.1% - 11.5%) and aged 45-64
years (12.2%, 95% CI = 11.6% - 12.8%). Starting at age 18 years, younger
adults were more likely than older adults to lack health insurance
coverage.
For
adults in age groups 18-24, 25-34, and 35-44 years, men were more likely
than women to lack health insurance coverage.