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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2011 Jun 23.
Published in final edited form as: Acad Emerg Med. 2010 May;17(5):508–513. doi: 10.1111/j.1553-2712.2010.00734.x

Table 4.

Number of EDs per 100,000 Population (95% CI) by Income According to Percentage With Poor Education in FIPS Code

Median Household
Income, US$
Low Percentage With Poor
Education (0%–5.2%)
Medium Percentage With
Poor Education (5.2%–10.5%)
High Percentage With
Poor Education (>10.5%)
$20,001–$30,000 2.54 (0.59–10.95) 1.59 (0.39–6.45) 1.47 (0.33–6.60)
$30,001–$40,000 1.52 (0.88–2.62) 0.95 (0.60–1.50) 0.88 (0.53–1.47)
$40,001–$50,000 0.85 (0.48–1.49) 0.53 (0.37–0.76) 0.49 (0.30–0.81)
$50,001–$60,000 0.83 (0.42–1.65) 0.52 (0.36–0.76) 0.48 (0.27–0.86)
$60,001–$70,000 0.32 (0.13–0.78) 0.20 (0.08–0.50) 0.19 (0.07–0.50)
$70,001–$80,000 0.62 (0.25–1.56) 0.39 (0.18–0.82) 0.36 (0.15–0.84)

“Poor education” refers to percentage of people age 25 or older with less than 9 years of education.

FIPS = Federal Information Processing Standard.