Table 16_1_4-3c

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_4.3c
Adults age 65 and over with any private health insurance,^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		56.0	0.9	22.9	2.0	46.3	1.6	61.8	1.4	66.5	1.5
Race	AI/AN only	33.7	6.7	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Asian only	40.9	3.4	DSU	DSU	32.2	7.8	41.5	5.8	60.0	5.1
	NHOPI only	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Black only	36.9	2.0	12.1	3.5	28.7	3.3	49.5	4.2	63.6	5.4
	White only	58.6	1.0	27.4	2.5	49.5	1.8	63.5	1.5	67.0	1.6
	Multiple races	54.0	6.8	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Ethnicity	Hispanic, all races	25.2	2.1	DSU	DSU	17.1	2.9	35.2	4.4	51.3	5.7
	Non-Hispanic, all races	58.3	0.9	26.6	2.2	49.4	1.7	63.3	1.4	67.1	1.5
	Non-Hispanic, Black	37.2	2.1	12.5	3.6	28.7	3.4	49.5	4.2	63.4	5.5
	Non-Hispanic, White	61.3	1.0	33.5	3.0	53.2	1.9	65.3	1.6	67.6	1.6
Gender	Female	55.4	1.0	24.6	2.2	48.0	1.8	62.5	1.5	64.9	1.7
Gender	Male	56.7	1.0	19.6	3.2	43.8	2.0	60.8	1.6	68.1	1.6
Education	Less than high school	44.1	1.4	14.2	2.0	41.0	2.3	58.8	2.4	61.3	4.0
	High school graduate	58.0	1.3	32.6	4.0	50.8	2.4	63.9	1.9	63.7	2.3
	At least some college	63.0	1.3	35.0	4.7	47.2	2.7	64.2	2.0	69.0	1.7
Location of residence^c	Metropolitan	55.1	1.0	21.0	2.4	44.4	1.7	60.6	1.5	65.3	1.5
	Large central metro	40.8	1.7	11.4	2.4	26.3	2.6	48.9	2.6	53.7	3.0
	Large fringe metro	61.9	1.6	39.6	7.2	51.4	3.6	63.3	2.8	70.2	2.7
	Medium metro	61.2	1.9	25.3	5.0	50.5	3.7	67.1	3.0	70.9	2.7
	Small metro	62.7	2.9	20.0	5.3	59.6	4.8	66.7	4.1	71.8	4.8
	Micropolitan (nonmetropolitan)	58.0	3.2	25.6	5.8	52.4	5.1	63.2	4.9	69.3	5.9
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	61.1	3.0	31.0	6.2	51.8	4.2	70.3	4.2	78.4	5.0
Activity limitations^c	Basic activities	51.6	1.3	20.0	2.7	47.8	2.3	61.2	2.0	66.1	2.9
	Complex activities	48.3	2.6	15.0	4.2	49.0	4.5	62.0	4.3	52.7	7.4
	Neither basic nor complex activities	60.2	1.2	26.1	4.4	47.7	2.9	65.0	2.1	68.9	2.0

^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.

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.

Page last reviewed October 2014

Internet Citation: Table 16_1_4-3c: 2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. October 2014. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr10/16_facilitators_barriers/T16_1_4-3c.html