Table 1_3_5-2a
2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports
Population group | Total | White | Black | Asian | |||||
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Percent | SE | Percent | SE | Percent | SE | Percent | SE | ||
Total | 59.9 | 0.3 | 59.9 | 0.3 | 58.2 | 0.8 | 64.9 | 1.6 | |
Anatomic location | Right | 67.9 | 0.3 | 67.7 | 0.4 | 67.0 | 1.0 | 74.0 | 2.4 |
Transverse | 56.8 | 0.9 | 56.6 | 0.9 | 55.3 | 2.5 | * | * | |
Sigmoid | 50.1 | 0.4 | 50.1 | 0.5 | 46.4 | 1.3 | 56.6 | 2.4 | |
Age | Under 40 | 77.5 | 1.6 | 76.3 | 1.9 | 79.6 | 4.0 | * | * |
40–49 | 69.6 | 1.0 | 69.3 | 1.1 | 69.8 | 2.4 | * | * | |
50–59 | 62.3 | 0.6 | 62.4 | 0.7 | 61.2 | 1.6 | 64.2 | 3.9 | |
60–69 | 59.2 | 0.6 | 59.2 | 0.6 | 57.5 | 1.5 | 63.7 | 3.3 | |
70–79 | 58.5 | 0.5 | 58.8 | 0.5 | 52.5 | 1.6 | 64.9 | 3.0 | |
80 and over | 57.0 | 0.5 | 57.1 | 0.6 | 53.9 | 2.2 | 57.1 | 4.4 | |
Health insurance, under age 65 | Private | 62.6 | 0.5 | 62.5 | 0.6 | 61.5 | 1.5 | 67.0 | 2.7 |
Public | 58.3 | 0.3 | 58.4 | 0.4 | 55.7 | 1.0 | 63.3 | 2.3 | |
Uninsured/other | 62.3 | 0.7 | 62.2 | 0.8 | 61.4 | 1.9 | 65.7 | 4.2 | |
Health insurance, age 65 and over | Medicare only | 57.0 | 0.7 | 57.1 | 0.8 | 54.1 | 1.9 | 69.8 | 4.3 |
Medicare and supplement | 58.4 | 0.4 | 58.6 | 0.4 | 53.9 | 1.5 | 59.2 | 3.2 | |
Family incomea | Negative/poor | 57.1 | 3.5 | * | * | 64.7 | 4.7 | * | * |
Near poor/low | 58.4 | 0.3 | 58.3 | 0.3 | 57.4 | 0.9 | 64.7 | 2.3 | |
Middle | 63.8 | 0.5 | 63.7 | 0.6 | 61.9 | 2.4 | 65.4 | 2.7 | |
High | 66.7 | 1.6 | 66.9 | 1.7 | * | * | * | * | |
Residence location | Metropolitan | 61.0 | 0.3 | 61.1 | 0.3 | 58.4 | 0.8 | 64.9 | 1.7 |
Large metropolitan, more than 1 million | 61.9 | 0.4 | 62.3 | 0.4 | 58.3 | 1.0 | 63.2 | 2.0 | |
Small metropolitan, less than 1 million | 59.6 | 0.5 | 59.5 | 0.5 | 58.6 | 1.6 | 70.7 | 3.4 | |
Micropolitan | 51.6 | 0.9 | 51.3 | 0.9 | 52.7 | 3.3 | * | * | |
Noncore | 58.7 | 1.0 | 58.5 | 1.1 | 62.1 | 3.8 | * | * | |
Noncore, adjacent | 59.2 | 1.2 | 58.8 | 1.2 | 62.7 | 4.1 | * | * | |
Noncore, rural | 56.7 | 2.2 | 57.5 | 2.3 | * | * | * | * |
a Negative/poor refers to household incomes below $17,500; near poor/low, over the poverty line to just below 200 percent of the Federal poverty line; middle, 200 percent to just below 400 percent of the poverty line; and high, 400 percent of the poverty line and over.
* - Data do not meet the criteria for statistical reliability, data quality, or confidentiality.
Key: SE: standard error.
Source: Commission on Cancer, American College of Surgeons and American Cancer Society, National Cancer Data Base.