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Published in final edited form as: Res Social Adm Pharm. 2013 May 23;10(1):10.1016/j.sapharm.2013.04.011. doi: 10.1016/j.sapharm.2013.04.011

Table 1.

Sociodemographic characteristics of the community pharmacy patients across racial and ethnic groups, 2009

Characteristics	Groups	Non-Hispanic Whites (N = 4215; weighted N = 58,152,471)			Non-Hispanic Blacks (N = 1437; weighted N = 7,122,068)			Hispanics (N = 1193; weighted N = 5,860,710)

		Frequency	Weighted number	%	Frequency	Weighted number	%	Frequency	Weighted number	%
Age (years)^a,^b	50–59	1574	22,056,662	37.9	628	3,181,451	44.7	578	2,581,595	44.1
	60–69	1292	17,708,854	30.4	451	2,115,247	29.7	337	1,614,428	27.5
	70–79	783	10,565,428	18.2	212	1,101,001	15.4	197	1,149,422	19.6
	≥80	566	7,821,526	13.5	146	724,368	10.2	81	515,265	8.8
Gender^a	Female	2376	32,227,571	55.4	923	4,372,059	61.4	701	3,333,909	56.9
Gender^a	Male	1839	25,924,900	44.6	514	2,750,009	38.6	492	2,526,801	43.1
Marital status^a,^b	Not married	1561	21,075,663	36.2	881	4,187,288	58.8	492	2,590,226	44.2
Marital status^a,^b	Married	2654	37,076,808	63.8	556	2,934,780	41.2	701	3,270,484	55.8
Highest degree^a,^b,^c	Lower than high school	697	8,339,705	14.4	463	2,048,407	29.1	696	3,051,703	52.5
	High school	979	28,304,364	48.9	657	3,288,827	46.6	314	1,716,026	29.5
	Bachelor	239	9,975,273	17.2	133	721,718	10.2	85	491,130	8.4
	Master and higher	157	6,305,657	10.9	82	506,520	7.2	33	247,155	4.3
	Other	122	5,003,954	8.6	89	489,424	6.9	54	309,322	5.3
Private health insurance^a,^b	No	1488	18,950,724	32.6	759	3,546,096	49.8	722	3,436,874	58.6
Private health insurance^a,^b	Yes	2727	39,201,746	67.4	678	3,575,971	50.2	471	2,423,836	41.4
Medicare^a,^b	No	2082	29,759,394	51.2	757	3,879,548	54.5	737	3,368,120	57.5
Medicare^a,^b	Yes	2133	28,393,077	48.8	680	3,242,520	45.5	456	2,492,590	42.5
Medicaid^a,^b	No	3912	54,847,423	94.3	1108	5,690,168	79.9	869	4,432,662	75.6
Medicaid^a,^b	Yes	303	3,305,048	5.7	329	1,431,900	20.1	324	1,428,048	24.4
Poverty categories^a,^b,^d	Poor	405	4,246,845	7.3	316	1,261,625	17.7	250	1,007,408	17.2
	Near poor	211	2,581,945	4.4	107	550,790	7.7	82	418,948	7.2
	Low income	509	6,539,693	11.2	269	1,347,096	18.9	224	1,226,137	20.9
	Middle income	1277	16,775,196	28.9	430	2,063,239	29.0	387	1,764,856	30.1
	High income	1813	28,008,792	48.2	315	1,899,317	26.7	250	1,443,361	24.6
Region^a,^b	Northeast	658	11,155,304	19.2	241	1,169,343	16.4	206	940,118	16.0
	Midwest	1128	15,119,455	26.0	209	1,200,342	16.8	88	407,568	7.0
	South	1573	20,481,608	35.2	865	4,078,240	57.3	417	2,185,495	37.3
	West	856	11,396,104	19.6	122	674,142	9.5	482	2,327,529	39.7
Metropolitan Statistical Area^a,^b	No	988	12,354,218	21.2	243	832,548	11.7	88	444,648	7.6
Metropolitan Statistical Area^a,^b	Yes	3227	45,798,253	78.8	1194	6,289,519	88.3	1105	5,416,062	92.4
Self-perceived Health status^a,^b,^e	Excellent	641	9,003,152	15.6	102	545,064	7.8	94	586,910	10.1
	Very good	1314	18,984,883	32.9	340	1,721,457	24.5	236	1,195,127	20.5
	Good	1345	18,378,837	31.8	511	2,596,180	37.0	403	1,960,106	33.6
	Fair	609	7,992,483	13.9	359	1,696,910	24.2	350	1,640,113	28.0
	Poor	276	3,342,843	5.8	103	453,873	6.5	104	455,110	7.8
No. of chronic conditions^a,^b	≤1	171	2,420,632	4.1	104	548,927	7.7	94	442,324	7.6
	2–4	1242	17,542,725	30.2	472	2,367,972	33.3	434	2,133,079	36.4
	≥5	2802	38,189,115	65.7	861	4,205,168	59.0	665	3,285,307	56.0

P < 0.05 for the difference between non-Hispanic Whites (Whites) and non-Hispanic Blacks (Blacks).

P < 0.05 for the difference between Whites and Hispanics.

Information on Highest degree was missing for 41 community pharmacy patients.

Categories of poverty status: Poor, <100% of poverty line; Near poor, 100– <125% of poverty line; Low income, 125– <200% of poverty line; Middle income, 200– <400% of poverty line; High income, 400% and greater.

Information on self-perceived health status was missing for 58 community pharmacy patients.