Table 1_3_2-2c

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 1_3_2.2c
Adults age 50 and over who ever received a colonoscopy, sigmoidoscopy, or proctoscopy,^a by family income,^b United States, 2008
		Total		Negative/poor		Near poor/low		Middle		High
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		55.4	0.6	36.7	2.0	45.5	1.4	53.3	1.2	65.1	1.0
Age	50-64	49.7	0.9	31.9	2.5	38.7	2.2	44.3	1.8	58.4	1.2
Age	65 and over	62.3	0.9	42.3	3.0	53.6	1.9	63.9	1.5	73.1	1.6
Race	AI/AN only	35.3	6.8	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Asian only	48.1	2.8	DSU	DSU	31.3	6.2	47.5	5.7	63.1	4.7
	NHOPI only	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Black only	50.0	1.8	34.0	3.6	47.3	3.7	51.8	3.7	65.6	3.2
	White only	56.6	0.7	39.5	2.2	45.7	1.7	53.8	1.3	65.4	1.1
	Multiple races	48.7	5.5	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Ethnicity	Hispanic, all races	38.8	1.9	25.2	4.0	36.3	3.4	44.1	3.8	46.8	4.2
	Non-Hispanic, all races	56.9	0.7	39.3	2.1	47.3	1.5	54.1	1.3	65.9	1.1
	Non-Hispanic, Black	50.4	1.8	34.6	3.7	47.8	3.7	52.1	3.7	65.6	3.3
	Non-Hispanic, White	58.4	0.7	43.7	2.5	47.7	1.9	54.7	1.4	66.3	1.1
Gender	Female	53.5	0.8	39.5	2.5	45.9	1.9	51.9	1.5	61.6	1.4
Gender	Male	57.9	0.9	32.2	3.1	45.2	2.3	55.1	1.8	68.5	1.4
Health insurance,^c ages 50-64	Private	55.2	1.0	42.4	7.3	48.8	3.4	47.4	1.9	59.5	1.3
	Public only	46.3	2.0	40.8	3.2	41.5	3.8	52.8	5.5	58.3	6.1
	Uninsured	22.1	2.1	11.9	2.8	23.3	4.0	22.9	3.8	32.5	6.8
Health insurance, age 65 and over	Medicare and private	66.8	1.1	47.8	5.6	60.0	3.0	65.5	1.8	74.0	1.9
	Medicare and public	58.1	2.5	42.8	4.7	49.8	5.5	71.1	4.8	73.2	5.6
	Medicare only	56.1	1.7	39.8	4.5	47.9	2.8	59.4	2.9	70.5	3.8
Education	Less than high school	38.4	1.4	33.1	2.6	36.0	2.5	43.1	2.4	40.2	4.2
	High school graduate	52.2	1.2	39.6	3.4	49.6	2.4	50.3	1.9	60.6	2.2
	At least some college	63.3	0.9	42.1	3.6	49.0	2.4	59.6	1.5	69.1	1.1
Location of residence^d	Metropolitan	56.2	0.7	35.6	2.3	46.1	1.8	53.7	1.4	65.8	1.1
	Large central metro	50.7	1.4	30.5	2.8	40.7	3.0	47.3	2.8	62.3	2.1
	Large fringe metro	59.4	1.4	36.3	5.1	50.5	3.7	53.7	2.7	67.3	1.9
	Medium metro	58.2	1.3	40.5	5.6	48.7	3.8	57.1	2.5	67.2	2.1
	Small metro	57.9	2.1	44.7	5.5	44.9	4.6	57.9	3.0	67.7	3.7
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	53.4	2.2	41.2	5.7	46.3	3.3	49.4	3.1	63.7	3.9
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	50.7	1.8	37.5	5.5	41.7	3.5	54.9	3.9	57.0	3.9
Activity limitations^d	Basic activities	55.4	1.1	41.4	2.8	49.1	2.3	58.6	2.2	67.6	2.4
	Complex activities	52.5	1.6	42.1	3.8	46.3	2.9	55.8	3.0	71.2	3.8
	Neither basic nor complex activities	56.4	0.8	32.0	3.0	42.3	2.1	52.3	1.5	65.0	1.2

^a Estimates are age adjusted to the 2000 standard population.� Age data and health insurance data for age 65 and over are unadjusted.

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

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

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

Current as of February 2011

Internet Citation: Table 1_3_2-2c: 2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. February 2011. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr10/1_cancer/T1_3_2-2c.html