Table 3.

Number of Annual Transitions by Demographics, Medicare Current Beneficiary Survey 2003 (weighted N = 31,832,934)

Characteristic	Number of transitions								p value
	None		1		2		3 or more
	Row %	SE	Row %	SE	Row %	SE	Row %	SE
Sample N	7,326		185		1,136		962
Weighted N	24,698,812		511,024		3,689,608		2,933,490
Age (years)
65–74	82.1	0.66	0.7	0.13	10.8	0.54	6.5	0.42	<.0001
75–84	75.9	0.70	1.6	0.20	12.4	0.54	10.1	0.49
85+	68.9	1.05	4.5	0.47	11.7	0.73	14.9	0.81
Gender
Male	77.1	0.68	1.5	0.18	12.7	0.54	8.8	0.45	.0280
Female	78.0	0.58	1.7	0.16	10.8	0.44	9.5	0.40
Race
White	77.6	0.47	1.6	0.13	11.8	0.37	9.0	0.32	.0985
Non-White	77.2	1.22	1.4	0.32	10.5	0.89	10.9	0.91
Region
East	78.0	1.03	1.9	0.30	10.7	0.79	9.4	0.69	.1036
Midwest	77.2	0.89	1.4	0.23	11.9	0.70	9.5	0.60
South	76.3	0.74	1.6	0.20	12.5	0.58	9.6	0.51
West	80.2	0.94	1.6	0.28	10.4	0.71	7.9	0.64