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2011 National Healthcare Quality & Disparities Reports
Data Tables Appendix

Table 16_3_2.1
People with a specific source of ongoing care,a United States, 2009
Population group Percent SE
Total   85.5 0.3
Age 0-17 94.5 0.3
18-44 74.1 0.6
45-64 87.7 0.4
65 and over 96.6 0.3
Race AI/AN only 79.0 3.5
Asian only 84.1 1.0
NHOPI only 75.5 9.2
Black only 84.5 0.6
White only 85.9 0.3
Multiple races 85.4 1.7
Ethnicity Hispanic, all races 76.9 0.8
Non-Hispanic, all races 87.1 0.3
  Non-Hispanic, Black 84.5 0.6
  Non-Hispanic, White 87.9 0.3
Gender Male 81.7 0.4
Female 89.2 0.3
Health insurance,b ages 0-64 Private 91.6 0.3
Public only 92.0 0.5
Uninsured 47.7 0.9
Health insurance, age 65 and over Medicare and private 97.4 0.3
Medicare and public 97.0 0.7
Medicare only 96.0 0.6
Family incomec Negative/poor 77.5 0.8
Near poor/low 80.4 0.7
Middle 85.6 0.5
High 91.7 0.4
Education, age 25 and over Less than high school 75.2 1.0
High school graduate 83.0 0.6
At least some college 87.5 0.4
Location of residencec Metropolitan 85.5 0.3
  Large central metro 83.4 0.5
  Large fringe metro 88.9 0.5
  Medium metro 85.0 0.7
  Small metro 84.7 1.2
Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan) 84.4 1.0
Noncore (nonmetropolitan) 87.3 1.0
Activity limitations,d age 18 and over Basic activities 90.7 0.5
Complex activities 87.8 0.8
Neither basic nor complex activities 80.8 0.4

a. Estimates are not age adjusted.

b. A small number of people who were covered by both public and private health insurance plans were included in the "private" category only.

c. Negative/poor refers to family incomes below the Federal poverty line for a given household size and composition; near poor/low, the poverty line to just below 200 percent of the poverty line; middle, 200 percent to just below 400 percent of the poverty line; and high, 400 percent of the poverty line and over.

d. For more information, see the National Health Interview Survey entry in Appendix A, Data Sources.

Key: AI/AN: American Indian or Alaska Native; NHOPI: Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander; SE: standard error.

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, National Health Interview Survey.

 

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