Table 6_2_6-1

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 6_2_6.1
Children ages 19–35 months who received 3 doses of hepatitis B vaccine, United States, 2001 and 2006
Population group		2006		2001
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		93.4	0.3	88.9	0.3
Race^a	AI/AN only	96.5	1.0	86.9	3.2
	Asian only	91.6	1.8	89.3	1.8
	NHOPI only	97.5	1.3	93.4	2.1
	Black only	92.0	0.8	85.0	1.1
	White only	93.8	0.3	89.7	0.4
	Multiple races	91.6	1.8	87.9	1.7
Ethnicity	Hispanic, all races	93.6	0.6	89.8	0.7
	Non-Hispanic, all races	93.2	0.3	88.7	0.4
	Non-Hispanic, Black	91.5	1.0	85.0	1.1
	Non-Hispanic, White	93.9	0.4	89.6	0.4
Gender	Male	93.6	0.4	89.4	0.5
Gender	Female	93.1	0.4	88.4	0.5
Family income^b	Negative/poor	92.9	0.7	86.5	0.9
	Near poor/low	93.1	0.7	88.7	0.7
	Middle	92.7	0.6	88.2	0.6
	High	94.8	0.5	91.9	0.6

^a Race categories have been changed since 2001. Data for 2001 and later years may not be comparable to data from previous years.

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

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

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

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Immunizations and Respiratory Diseases, and National Center for Health Statistics, National Immunization Survey.

Current as of September 2009

Internet Citation: Table 6_2_6-1: 2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. September 2009. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr08/6_maternalchildhealth/T6_2_6-1.html