Table 16_1_1-3b

2010 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 16_1_1.3b
People under age 65 with health insurance,^a by ethnicity, United States, 2008
				Non-Hispanic
		Total		All races		White		Black		Hispanic, all races
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		83.2	0.3	86.5	0.3	87.5	0.3	82.1	0.6	66.7	0.7
Age	0-17	91.0	0.4	93.1	0.5	93.3	0.6	92.5	0.8	83.2	0.8
	18-44	75.6	0.4	80.7	0.4	82.2	0.5	73.5	0.9	53.2	1.0
	45-64	86.4	0.3	88.5	0.3	89.7	0.4	83.2	0.9	68.5	1.2
Gender	Female	84.6	0.3	87.4	0.3	88.5	0.4	83.2	0.7	70.0	0.8
Gender	Male	81.7	0.3	85.5	0.3	86.5	0.4	80.9	0.7	63.8	0.8
Family income^b	Negative/poor	71.0	0.9	76.3	1.1	75.2	1.6	77.5	1.5	58.9	1.5
	Near poor/low	69.4	0.7	74.2	0.8	73.7	1.1	75.4	1.5	56.9	1.2
	Middle	83.4	0.5	85.6	0.5	86.0	0.6	84.2	1.0	72.2	1.2
	High	93.8	0.3	94.4	0.3	94.8	0.3	91.6	0.9	86.4	1.2
Education, ages 25-64	Less than high school	56.9	0.9	68.1	1.1	67.0	1.4	71.4	2.1	41.9	1.3
	High school graduate	78.5	0.5	80.9	0.6	82.8	0.6	75.0	1.2	63.3	1.5
	At least some college	89.0	0.3	90.0	0.3	91.2	0.3	83.8	0.8	77.3	1.1
Location of residence^c	Metropolitan	83.6	0.3	87.3	0.3	88.6	0.4	82.5	0.6	67.0	0.7
	Large central metro	81.2	0.5	86.8	0.5	88.9	0.6	82.1	0.9	66.4	0.9
	Large fringe metro	86.4	0.5	89.0	0.5	90.4	0.6	82.4	1.1	68.8	1.8
	Medium metro	83.7	0.7	86.9	0.6	87.7	0.6	83.7	1.4	67.4	1.7
	Small metro	82.9	1.2	85.2	1.2	86.0	1.3	81.5	1.5	64.6	3.7
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	81.4	1.0	83.1	0.9	83.7	1.0	78.0	3.1	62.1	4.8
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	80.2	1.4	81.4	1.5	81.9	1.6	80.8	3.1	66.3	5.0
Activity limitations,^c ages 18-64	Basic activities	84.9	0.8	86.0	0.9	85.7	1.0	86.2	1.7	75.7	2.5
	Complex activities	83.7	0.7	84.7	0.7	84.8	0.8	85.6	1.4	74.2	2.4
	Neither basic nor complex activities	81.2	0.4	84.3	0.4	85.7	0.5	77.2	1.0	59.8	1.3

^a Estimates are not adjusted.

^b Negative or poor refers to family incomes below the Federal poverty line for a given household size and composition; 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.

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

Key: SE: standard error.

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

Current as of February 2011

Internet Citation: Table 16_1_1-3b: 2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. February 2011. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr10/16_facilitators_barriers/T16_1_1-3b.html