TABLE 2.

Demographic Characteristics of Children Hospitalized With Pneumonia in 2006, Stratified by Insurance Category

	Private	Public	Uninsured	Other Insurance	P
No. of children (%)	63,997 (41)	80,226 (51)	6,912 (4)	5,283 (3)	…
Male sex	34,639 (41)	44,140 (52)	3,727 (4)	2,808 (3)	0.092
Race
White	30,707 (55)	21,282 (38)	2,241 (4)	1,774 (3)	<0.001
Black*	5,112 (27)	12,239 (65)	988 (5)	426 (3)
Other	11,033 (27)	26,489 (65)	2,112 (5)	1,076 (3)
Missing	17,145 (42)	20,216 (49)	1,572 (4)	2,007 (4)
Age category
<1 year	10,788 (29)	24,762 (65)	1,164 (3)	880 (3)	<0.001
1 through 5 years	33,664 (42)	39,531 (50)	3,442 (4)	2,673 (3)
6 through 11 years	11,660 (50)	9,684 (41)	1,085 (5)	1,015 (4)
>12 years	7,885 (49)	6,249 (39)	1,221 (8)	714 (4)
Hospital type
Urban non-teaching	22,429 (44)	24,241 (49)	2,440 (5)	1,555 (2)	<0.001
Rural†	10,880 (34)	18,396 (58)	1,290 (4)	1,109 (3)
Urban teaching non-children’s‡	13,130 (44)	14,542 (48)	1,721 (6)	750 (2)
Urban teaching children’s§	16,591 (40)	21,544 (53)	1,417 (3)	1,465 (4)
Region
Northeast	12,364 (52)	9,620 (40)	1,466 (6)	377 (2)	<0.001
Midwest||	17,891 (50)	15,573 (43)	1,160 (3)	1,215 (3)
South||	21,479 (33)	38,112 (58)	3,108 (5)	2,495 (4)
West||	12,263 (39)	16,921 (44)	1,178 (5)	1,195 (5)
Asthma	10,829 (41)	13,923 (52)	1,119 (4)	866 (3)	0.193
Pneumonia-associated complication	5,416 (46)	5,206 (45)	532 (4)	556 (5)	<0.001
Died	66 (34)	115 (60)	3 (1)	8 (5)	0.131

NOTE: Chi-square test used to compare differences. Numbers across rows may not sum exactly because weighted estimates from these data are obtained using survey commands as per KIDS technical guidance.¹⁵ For data from other years (1997, 2000, 2003), see Supporting Appendix C in the online version of this article.

^*P < 0.001 compared with white race.

^†P < 0.001 compared with urban non-teaching hospitals.

^‡P = 0.384 compared with urban non-teaching hospitals.

^§P = 0.004 compared with urban non-teaching hospitals.

^||P < 0.001 compared with Northeast region.