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. 2007 Mar 9;7:40. doi: 10.1186/1472-6963-7-40

Table 4.

Proportion of persons with a high travel burden for medical/dental care, by residence and race, NHTS 2001. * (Note: The value for rural, Hispanic travelers is statistically unreliable due to small sample size.)

Percent of trips that are 30 or more miles (46.3 km)
Total Rural Urban

Percent SE Percent SE Percent SE P-values for residence

Total 7.91 0.72 21.44 2.45 4.50 0.70 < 0.0001
 White 7.46 0.82 21.53 2.81 3.33 0.58 < 0.0001
 African American 6.71 1.91 23.35 9.47 3.67 1.44 0.0484
 Hispanic 11.68 5.15 6.40 6.02 12.54 5.95 0.4777
Other 10.08 3.54 25.42 12.85 8.01 3.79 0.2201
P values for race 0.6461 0.3560 0.2434

Percent of trips that are 30 minutes or more

Total Rural Urban

Percent SE Percent SE Percent SE P-values for residence

Total 28.54 1.33 41.26 2.99 25.33 1.49 < 0.0001
 White 24.41 1.32 38.45 2.98 20.29 1.43 < 0.0001
 African American 49.71 4.85 54.87 16.35 48.77 5.09 0.6933
 Hispanic 32.86 7.48 56.09 19.37 29.06 8.60 0.2241
 Other 31.68 4.09 49.43 10.14 29.28 4.60 0.1100

P values for race < 0.0001 0.4320 0.0001

*Estimates are weighted to be nationally representative; they are based on 3,914 observations.