Table 1.
Estimated Percentages of White, Black, and Latino Health Plan Members Aged 66–85 Who Ever Had a Pneumococcal Vaccination, 2002a
| Group | % Pneumococcal Vaccination, Excluding Don't Know and Missing Data from Denominator | % Pneumococcal Vaccination, Including Don't Know and Missing Data in Denominator | % with Unknown Pneumococcal Vaccination Status |
| % (95% CI) (Sample N) | % (95% CI) (Sample N) | % (95% CI) | |
| ALL | |||
| White | 83.7% (82.5% – 85.0%) (N = 4573) |
77.6% (76.2% – 78.9%) (N = 4945) |
7.4% (6.5% – 8.2%) |
| Black | 78.2% (72.6% – 83.8%) (N= 273) |
67.8% (61.8% – 73.7%) (N = 316) |
13.3% (9.0% – 17.7%) |
| Latino | 78.5% (73.5% – 83.5%) (N = 351) |
69.5% (64.3% – 74.7%) (N = 400) |
11.5% (8.0% – 15.0%) |
| FEMALES | |||
| White | 85.0% (83.3% – 86.7%) (N = 2337) |
81.0% (79.2% – 82.8%) (N = 2451) |
4.7% (3.7% – 5.7%) |
| Black | 76.5% (68.8% – 84.1%) (N = 149) |
66.7% (58.8%–74.7%) (N = 171) |
12.7% (7.1% – 18.3%) |
| Latina | 79.9% (73.2% – 86.6%) (N = 185) |
73.7% (66.8% – 80.6%) (N = 202) |
7.8% (3.9% – 11.7%) |
| MALES | |||
| White | 82.1% (80.2% – 84.0%) (N = 2236) |
73.5% (71.4% – 75.5%) (N = 2494) |
10.5% (9.1% – 11.9%) |
| Black | 80.6% (72.5% – 88.7%) (N = 124) |
69.2% (60.2% – 78.2%) (N = 145) |
14.2% (7.2% – 21.1%) |
| Latino | 76.4% (69.0% – 83.8%) (N = 166) |
63.8% (56.0% – 71.5%) (N = 198) |
16.6% (10.4% – 22.8%) |
a Based on self-report data from the 2002 Kaiser Permanente Adult Member Health Survey weighted to reflect the age, gender, and geographic composition of the membership at the time of the survey.