Table 1.

Summary statistics for children 0–17-years-old who participated in the 2006–2011 National Health Interview Survey (%).

	Whites			Latinos			Blacks
	%	95% CI		%	95% CI		%	95% CI		p
Health-care outcomes
Usual source of care	96.98	96.76	97.21	91.53	91.06	92.00	95.70	95.24	96.16	<.001
Delayed care	8.17	7.80	8.53	16.05	15.44	16.67	10.98	10.28	11.69	<.001
Emergency department visit	20.19	19.66	20.72	20.37	19.69	21.04	26.39	25.39	27.39	<.001
Doctor visit	92.20	91.84	92.56	85.15	84.55	85.75	89.50	88.80	90.19	<.001
Preventive visit	77.43	76.87	77.98	72.16	71.40	72.91	81.43	80.55	82.32	<.001
Social and demographic characteristics
Age										<.001
0–5	29.43	28.82	30.03	33.37	32.58	34.16	30.06	29.02	31.10
6–10	26.21	25.62	26.79	27.29	26.54	28.03	26.14	25.14	27.13
11–17	44.37	43.71	45.02	39.34	38.53	40.16	43.80	42.68	44.93
Female	49.20	48.53	49.86	48.47	47.64	49.31	48.72	47.59	49.85	.40
Self-reported health										<.001
Excellent	61.51	60.87	62.16	47.42	46.58	48.26	49.73	48.59	50.86
Very good	26.93	26.34	27.52	28.03	27.27	28.78	26.15	25.15	27.15
Good	10.46	10.06	10.87	21.69	21.00	22.38	20.56	19.65	21.48
Fair	.96	.83	1.08	2.55	2.28	2.81	3.28	2.88	3.69
Poor	.14	.09	.19	.31	.22	.41	.28	.16	.40
Citizenship/nativity										<.001
US-born	98.29	98.11	98.46	88.55	88.02	89.08	97.37	97.01	97.74
Naturalized citizen	1.05	.91	1.18	2.45	2.19	2.71	.95	.73	1.17
Non-US citizen	.66	.55	.77	9.00	8.52	9.48	1.67	1.38	1.97
Maternal education										<.001
<High school	5.96	5.65	6.28	39.97	39.15	40.79	14.45	13.66	15.25
High school	22.43	21.87	22.98	25.63	24.90	26.37	27.46	26.45	28.47
>High school	71.61	71.01	72.21	34.39	33.60	35.19	58.08	56.96	59.20
Family income (% FPL)										<.001
<100%	9.41	9.03	9.80	31.68	30.90	32.46	32.31	31.25	33.37
100–200%	15.43	14.95	15.91	32.75	31.96	33.53	24.78	23.80	25.76
>200%	75.16	74.58	75.73	35.58	34.77	36.38	42.91	41.78	44.03
Interview language										<.001
English	99.65	99.57	99.73	74.50	73.77	75.23	99.83	99.73	99.92
Spanish	.18	.12	.23	25.48	24.75	26.21	.04	−.01	.09
Other	.17	.12	.23	.02	.00	.05	.13	.05	.22
Health insurance										<.001
Uninsured	5.70	5.40	6.01	16.10	15.49	16.72	6.89	6.31	7.46
Private health insurance	74.18	73.60	74.76	32.39	31.60	33.17	41.74	40.62	42.86
Public health insurance	20.12	19.58	20.65	51.51	50.67	52.35	51.37	50.24	52.51
US Census region										<.001
Northeast	17.58	17.08	18.09	13.80	13.23	14.38	16.92	16.07	17.77
Midwest	29.44	28.83	30.04	9.49	9.00	9.98	18.55	17.67	19.44
South	33.97	33.35	34.60	33.78	32.99	34.58	56.25	55.12	57.37
West	19.00	18.48	19.52	42.92	42.09	43.75	8.28	7.65	8.90
Survey year										<.001
2011	20.75	20.21	21.28	21.38	20.69	22.06	19.99	19.08	20.89
2010	17.49	16.99	18.00	19.69	19.02	20.35	18.94	18.05	19.83
2009	18.13	17.62	18.64	18.71	18.05	19.36	18.53	17.64	19.41
2008	14.60	14.13	15.06	13.57	13.00	14.15	14.48	13.68	15.28
2007	15.34	14.86	15.82	14.59	14.00	15.18	14.19	13.39	14.98
2006	13.69	13.24	14.15	12.07	11.52	12.62	13.88	13.09	14.66
Sample size	21,884			13,669		7465

Note: CI = confidence interval, FPL = federal poverty level.