Table 1.

Health Insurance Coverage by Age, U.S. Civilian, Noninstitutional Population, 2008 ACS PUMS, and CPS-ASEC, 2009

	ACS						CPS-ASEC						ACS–CPS
	All		0–18		19–64		All		0–18		19–64		Differences
	261,412		78,429		182,982		263,695		78,683		185,012		All		0–18		19–64
Population (in thousands)	%	SE	%	SE	%	SE	%	SE	%	SE	%	SE	Difference	Significance	Difference	Significance	Difference	Significance
Uninsured	17.0	0.06	10.4	0.07	19.9	0.07	18.3	0.15	11.4	0.21	21.3	0.18	−1.3	***	−1.0	***	−1.4	***
Public	16.0	0.05	27.5	0.11	11.0	0.04	15.9	0.14	28.5	0.32	10.6	0.12	0.0		−1.0	**	0.4	***
Means-tested	13.4	0.05	27.0	0.11	7.6	0.03	13.1	0.14	27.8	0.32	6.8	0.10	0.3	*	−0.8	*	0.7	***
Medicare	2.5	0.01	0.7	0.02	3.3	0.02	2.9	0.06	0.8	0.07	3.8	0.08	−0.4	***	−0.2	**	−0.5	***
VA	1.2	0.01	0.1	0.01	1.7	0.01	0.9	0.04	0.4	0.05	1.0	0.05	0.3	***	−0.3	***	0.6	***
Private	69.7	0.09	64.4	0.13	71.9	0.08	69.0	0.21	64.8	0.31	70.7	0.21	0.7	**	−0.4		1.2	***
ESI	61.4	0.08	56.4	0.12	63.6	0.08	61.9	0.22	58.7	0.30	63.2	0.23	−0.5		−2.3	***	0.3
Direct purchase	10.6	0.03	9.4	0.06	11.2	0.03	6.3	0.10	5.1	0.16	6.8	0.10	4.3	***	4.3	***	4.3	***
TRICARE/military	2.0	0.02	2.3	0.03	1.9	0.01	2.5	0.12	2.6	0.17	2.4	0.11	−0.5	***	−0.3		−0.6	***
Public and private coverage	2.6	0.02	2.3	0.03	2.8	0.02	3.1	0.07	4.6	0.14	2.4	0.06	−0.4	***	−2.3	***	0.4	***

Notes. Due to differences in population control totals and weighting, the population counts do not perfectly align. Logically edited values in the CPS-ASEC have been recoded to their original values.

^*p<.05

^**p<.001

^***p<.001.

ACS, American Community Survey; CPS, Current Population Survey; ESI, employer-sponsored insurance; SE, standard error expressed as a %; Significance, significance test for the difference of ACS and CPS; VA, Veterans Affairs.

Source: U.S. Census Bureau, 2008 ACS Public Use Microdata Sample and the CPS-ASEC, 2009.