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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2010 Feb 1.
Published in final edited form as: Pediatrics. 2009 Feb;123(2):e214–e219. doi: 10.1542/peds.2008-2454

TABLE 1.

Age and Race of Uninsured Children, and Children Reporting no USC, NHIS 1998 and 2006

Demographics Uninsured 1998 (N = 8 746 854;
n = 1993),
Proportion (95% CI)
Uninsured 2006 (N = 7 250 542;
n = 1080),
Proportion (95% CI)
No USC 1998 (N = 2 208 722;
n = 552),
Proportion (95% CI)
No USC 2006 (N = 2 358 232;
n = 345),
Proportion (95% CI)
Age, y
   0–5 30.1 (27.7–32.7) 25.9 (22.7–29.5) 16.5 (13.1–20.5) 17.8 (13.3–23.6)
   6–11 34.7 (32.0–37.5) 35.3 (30.0–40.9) 34.0 (28.8–39.5) 28.2 (21.9–35.5)
   12–17 35.2 (32.8–37.7) 33.6 (29.1–38.6) 49.6 (44.3–54.9) 54.0 (47.0–60.8)
Race/ethnicity
   White 46.0 (42.8–49.2) 39.2 (35.0–43.6) 37.0 (31.6–42.7) 32.7 (25.5–40.8)
   Black 15.3 (13.1–17.) 12.7 (10.4–15.5) 13.7 (10.3–18.0) 11.1 (7.1–16.8)
   Hispanic 33.0 (30.2–36.0) 42.5 (38.2–46.8) 41.6 (36.3–47.2) 50.9 (43.5–58.4)
   Asian 5.7 (4.1–8.0) 5.6 (4.5–5.8) 7.7 (5.2–11.2) 5.0 (2.6–9.4)