TABLE 2.
Characteristics Associated With Children’s Different Insurance Types and Patterns
| Children’s Different Insurance Types and Patterns Stratified by FPL Categories |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| <200% FPL |
200%–400% FPL |
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| Child had Private all Year |
Child had Public all Year |
Child was Uninsured Part Year (Coverage gap) |
Child was Uninsured Full Year |
All Children |
Child had Private all Year |
Child had Public all Year |
Child was Uninsured Part Year (Coverage gap) |
Child was Uninsured Full Year |
All Children |
|
| No. of sample* | 3698 (18.5%) |
15,391 (49.6%) |
4800 (16.7%) |
2750 (8.4%) |
26,639 (100%) |
7962 (66.6%) |
2001 (11.7%) |
1490 (10.4%) |
1058 (6.9%) |
12,511 (100%) |
| Characteristics | Weighted %† | |||||||||
| Child’s age, years | ||||||||||
| 0–4 | 23.1 | 34.3 | 28.0 | 18.5 | 29.5 | 23.6 | 28.0 | 28.1 | 20.4 | 24.4 |
| 5–9 | 30.7 | 28.6 | 28.1 | 27.2 | 28.8 | 27.0 | 26.9 | 26.6 | 23.2 | 26.6 |
| 10–14 | 25.2 | 19.9 | 22.1 | 26.0 | 21.9 | 24.4 | 21.2 | 23.9 | 25.7 | 24.0 |
| 15–17 | 21.0 | 17.2 | 21.8 | 28.3 | 19.8 | 25.1 | 23.9 | 21.4 | 30.7 | 25.0 |
| Child’s Race/Ethnicity | ||||||||||
| White, non-Hispanic | 56.3 | 34.1 | 40.1 | 30.0 | 39.2 | 72.5 | 43.8 | 57.5 | 52.4 | 65.9 |
| Hispanic, any Race | 18.7 | 30.9 | 36.3 | 51.8 | 31.3 | 11.3 | 28.3 | 22.4 | 28.1 | 15.8 |
| Non-White, non-Hispanic | 25.1 | 35.0 | 23.6 | 18.2 | 29.5 | 16.2 | 28.0 | 20.1 | 19.4 | 18.3 |
| Family composition‡ | ||||||||||
| 1 parent in household | 28.4 | 51.6 | 41.3 | 34.2 | 43.5 | 16.0 | 38.6 | 27.9 | 26.7 | 20.7 |
| 2 parents in household | 71.6 | 48.4 | 58.7 | 65.8 | 56.5 | 84.0 | 61.4 | 72.1 | 73.4 | 79.3 |
| Parental employment | ||||||||||
| Employed | 94.8 | 70.4 | 78.5 | 84.8 | 78.1 | 99.1 | 90.2 | 93.4 | 96.0 | 97.2 |
| Not employed | 5.2 | 29.6 | 21.5 | 15.2 | 21.9 | 0.9 | 9.8 | 6.6 | 4.0 | 2.8 |
| Parent’s education | ||||||||||
| ≥12y | 87.7 | 63.8 | 68.4 | 58.1 | 69.0 | 96.4 | 81.2 | 88.6 | 81.5 | 92.7 |
| <12y | 12.3 | 36.2 | 31.6 | 42.0 | 31.0 | 3.6 | 18.8 | 11.4 | 18.5 | 7.3 |
| Geographic residence | ||||||||||
| Northeast | 17.3 | 15.8 | 12.8 | 9.3 | 15.0 | 18.7 | 15.6 | 11.3 | 12.3 | 17.0 |
| Midwest | 24.5 | 18.0 | 16.6 | 16.0 | 18.9 | 28.3 | 15.8 | 19.6 | 18.5 | 25.1 |
| South | 33.6 | 40.8 | 42.6 | 43.5 | 39.9 | 30.7 | 43.9 | 42.2 | 44.0 | 34.5 |
| West | 24.6 | 25.4 | 28.1 | 31.2 | 26.2 | 22.4 | 24.8 | 26.9 | 25.3 | 23.4 |
| Metropolitan statistical area (MSA) | ||||||||||
| Non-MSA | 20.3 | 21.5 | 17.0 | 12.6 | 19.7 | 18.6 | 16.1 | 18.0 | 16.0 | 18.0 |
| MSA | 79.7 | 78.5 | 83.0 | 87.4 | 80.3 | 81.4 | 83.9 | 82.0 | 84.0 | 82.0 |
| Child’s USC status | ||||||||||
| Yes USC | 92.9 | 92.3 | 78.1 | 59.9 | 87.0 | 94.2 | 92.3 | 84.7 | 72.8 | 91.4 |
| No USC | 7.1 | 7.7 | 21.9 | 40.1 | 13.1 | 5.8 | 7.7 | 15.3 | 27.2 | 8.6 |
| Parent’s insurance type | ||||||||||
| Any private | 96.0 | 23.3 | 43.2 | 22.4 | 41.7 | 99.1 | 51.3 | 82.3 | 41.0 | 87.6 |
| Public Only | 0.9 | 53.1 | 29.1 | 8.5 | 34.1 | 0.1† | 26.9 | 4.9 | 2.9 | 3.9 |
| Uninsured | 3.1 | 23.6 | 27.8 | 69.2 | 24.2 | 0.8* | 21.8 | 12.8 | 56.1 | 8.5 |
| Child health status | ||||||||||
| Excellent/very good/good | 98.2 | 95.7 | 96.1 | 97.7 | 96.4 | 98.9 | 96.9 | 97.9 | 98.6 | 98.5 |
| Fair/poor | 1.8 | 4.3 | 3.9 | 2.3 | 3.6 | 1.1 | 3.1 | 2.1 | 1.4§ | 1.5 |
| Child has special health care needs | ||||||||||
| Yes | 17.6 | 22.0 | 16.3 | 8.8 | 18.9 | 18.5 | 26.0 | 15.6 | 12.2 | 18.7 |
| No | 82.4 | 78.0 | 83.7 | 91.2 | 81.1 | 81.5 | 74.0 | 84.4 | 87.8 | 81.3 |
Source: 2002–2006 MEPS, Household Component.
Notes: Column percentages may not add to 100% due to rounding to the nearest tenth.
FPL: in 2006, FPL for family of 4 was $20,000).
P < 0.05 in χ2 test comparisons of overall differences between subgroups of each covariate and insurance patterns, except for Metropolitan Statistical Area for the 200% to 400% FPL group.
Unweighted counts represent the total number of children, aged 0 to 17 years, from MEPS respondent households with a positive person weight.
To derive national population estimates, each child record from the MEPS was weighted according to person-level weights provided by the data-collection agency.
One parent: n=11,519 for <200%FPL; n=2,798 for 200% to 400%FPL. Two parents: n=15,389 for <200%FPL; n=10,102 for 200% to 400%FPL.
This estimate represents <30 people and/or has relative standard error ≥30%, and may not be reliable.
FPL indicates federal poverty level; MEPS, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey; USC, usual source of care.