Table 18_2_1-1c

2009 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 18_2_1.1c
Adults age 50 and over who reported they had a sigmoidoscopy, a colonoscopy, or a fecal occult blood test within the past 5 years, by family income,^a California, 2007
		Total		Negative/poor		Near poor/low		Middle		High
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		66.1	0.5	50.3	2.0	57.9	1.3	66.1	1.4	71.2	0.6
Health insurance,^b under age 65	Private	66.4	0.7	49.8	5.8	52.6	3.4	63.3	2.5	68.5	0.7
	Public	57.0	1.9	45.9	3.3	56.0	3.4	70.1	4.5	70.5	3.6
	Uninsured	31.1	2.4	30.9	6.3	29.6	3.5	30.3	6.1	33.2	3.5
Health insurance, age 65 and over	Total	74.8	0.6	62.9	2.4	68.4	1.7	73.9	1.4	80.3	0.8
	Medicare and private	78.1	0.7	71.0	4.4	71.3	2.1	75.2	1.6	81.3	0.8
	Medicare and public	66.7	1.8	61.9	3.2	64.6	3.2	71.8	4.1	79.4	4.0
	Medicare only	66.1	2.4	68.5	7.1	65.4	4.7	59.7	5.4	68.1	3.5
Education	Less than high school	56.3	1.6	49.1	3.2	57.5	2.6	61.1	3.8	62.6	3.7
	High school graduate	63.5	1.0	48.2	3.6	56.9	2.4	68.2	2.2	67.6	1.4
	At least some college	70.1	0.5	54.8	3.0	59.2	1.9	66.5	1.8	72.8	0.6
Residence location	Urban	66.3	0.5	50.2	2.1	58.1	1.5	65.9	1.5	71.6	0.6
Residence location	Rural	64.8	1.0	50.8	4.6	56.1	2.7	67.3	2.3	68.7	1.3
English proficiency	English only	68.9	0.5	53.4	2.7	61.5	1.6	67.6	1.5	71.8	0.6
	Well/very well	65.6	1.3	56.0	4.3	57.8	3.0	63.5	3.4	70.6	1.7
	Not well/not at all	51.6	1.9	45.6	3.4	51.4	3.1	61.5	4.9	59.7	4.8
Born in U.S.	Yes	68.7	0.5	53.8	2.6	60.6	1.5	67.5	1.5	72.0	0.6
Born in U.S.	No	59.0	1.2	47.6	2.9	54.2	2.4	62.2	2.9	67.6	1.6

^a Negative/poor refers to household incomes below the Federal poverty line; near poor/low, the poverty line to just below 200 percent of the poverty line; middle, 200 percent to just below 300 percent of the poverty line; and high, 300 percent of the poverty line and over. Missing values for family income were imputed using multiple imputation methodology. A small number of people were excluded because their family income could not be imputed.

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

Key: SE: standard error.

Source: University of California, Los Angeles, Center for Health Policy Research, California Health Interview Survey.

Current as of March 2010

Internet Citation: Table 18_2_1-1c: 2009 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. March 2010. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr09/18_populations/T18_2_1-1c.html