Table 14_4_5-1d

2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports

The National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) is a comprehensive national overview of quality of health care in the United States. It is organized around four dimensions of quality of care: effectiveness, patient safety, timeliness, and patient centeredness.

Table 14_4_5.1d
People with a usual source of care, excluding hospital emergency rooms, who has office hours nights or weekends, by education,^a United States, 2005
Population group		Total		Less than high school		High school graduate		At least some college
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		38.8	0.9	37.4	1.3	40.3	1.3	38.2	1.0
Age	18–44	44.7	1.1	45.6	2.0	46.5	1.8	43.5	1.3
	45–64	37.9	1.2	33.9	2.0	41.1	1.6	36.9	1.4
	65 and over	26.9	1.4	29.5	1.9	26.5	2.1	25.5	1.8
Gender	Male	39.4	1.1	40.8	1.8	41.4	1.6	37.7	1.2
Gender	Female	38.3	0.9	34.7	1.4	39.5	1.4	38.7	1.1
Race	White, single race	38.7	1.0	38.6	1.5	40.3	1.4	37.6	1.1
	Black, single race	37.8	1.8	30.3	2.7	38.5	2.5	41.3	2.5
	Asian, single race	39.4	3.6	*	*	41.1	6.6	39.5	3.7
	NHOPI, single race	*	*	*	*	*	*	*	*
	AI/AN, single race	38.4	6.0	*	*	*	*	*	*
	Multiple races	46.1	4.3	*	*	*	*	43.0	5.9
Ethnicity	Non-Hispanic, all races	38.4	1.0	36.5	1.5	39.9	1.4	38.0	1.1
	Non-Hispanic, White	38.2	1.1	37.5	1.8	40.0	1.5	37.3	1.1
	Non-Hispanic, Black	37.6	1.9	30.7	2.8	37.5	2.5	41.2	2.5
	Hispanic	41.9	1.7	40.4	2.2	44.2	3.0	41.7	2.5
Family income^b	Negative/poor	32.5	1.7	31.9	2.2	32.4	2.7	33.6	2.8
	Near poor/low	35.2	1.4	37.8	2.1	36.5	2.0	30.9	2.2
	Middle	39.0	1.4	36.7	2.3	40.4	1.8	38.7	1.7
	High	41.2	1.2	45.2	3.7	44.4	1.9	39.6	1.3
Employment status, ages 18–64	Employed	42.6	1.0	44.5	1.8	45.0	1.6	41.0	1.1
Employment status, ages 18–64	Not employed	37.7	1.4	35.0	2.0	40.0	2.0	37.5	2.0
Health insurance, ages 18–64	Any private	42.6	1.1	45.4	2.3	44.8	1.6	41.0	1.2
	Public only	35.6	1.6	35.3	2.1	38.1	2.7	32.3	3.1
	Uninsured	39.6	1.8	36.8	2.8	42.7	2.8	39.0	2.7
Health insurance, age 65 and over	Medicare only	30.7	2.4	33.8	3.7	29.4	3.6	29.3	3.7
	Medicare and private	25.6	1.7	28.4	3.1	25.9	2.6	24.1	2.0
	Medicare and other public	24.5	2.6	26.5	3.2	*	*	*	*
Residence location^c	Metropolitan	41.1	1.0	39.5	1.4	43.8	1.5	40.1	1.1
	Large central metro	41.1	1.3	40.1	2.0	44.4	2.2	39.8	1.6
	Large fringe metro	46.0	1.5	43.8	3.3	50.4	2.5	44.0	1.7
	Medium metro	35.5	2.7	34.7	3.0	34.2	3.5	36.7	3.0
	Small metro	40.8	3.2	39.5	4.3	46.8	5.0	37.0	2.9
	Nonmetropolitan	27.8	1.7	29.7	2.8	27.6	1.8	27.0	2.2
	Micropolitan	27.4	2.0	30.2	3.1	27.1	2.5	26.4	2.7
	Noncore	28.5	3.9	29.1	5.3	28.6	4.6	28.0	4.6
Language spoken most often at home	English	38.7	1.0	37.1	1.5	40.3	1.4	38.1	1.0
Language spoken most often at home	Other	40.0	2.1	38.8	2.5	40.8	3.3	41.2	3.9
Perceived health status	Excellent/very good/good	40.0	1.0	41.1	1.5	41.0	1.4	39.1	1.0
Perceived health status	Fair/poor	31.8	1.4	27.4	1.9	36.8	2.2	30.4	2.2
Activity limitations,^c age 18 and over	Basic activities	29.8	1.3	26.5	1.8	33.3	2.0	29.2	2.0
	Complex activities	32.3	1.6	26.5	2.0	38.3	2.6	31.8	2.7
	Neither basic nor complex activities	40.5	1.0	41.8	1.6	41.6	1.5	39.6	1.0

^a Persons age 18 and over. 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.

^b Negative/poor refers to household incomes below the Federal poverty line; near poor/low, at or over 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.

^c For more information, see the MEPS entry in Appendix A, Data Sources.

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

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

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

Current as of September 2009

Internet Citation: Table 14_4_5-1d: 2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. September 2009. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr08/14_facilitators_barrierstocare/T14_4_5-1d.html