Table 1.

Socio-demographic characteristics across racial and ethnic groups among the Medicare population in 2010-2011

Variables	Groups	Non-Hispanic Whites		Non-Hispanic Blacks		Hispanics
		No.	%	No.	%	No.	%
Age	<65	356	12.79	223	23.55	82	14.75
	65-75	1,316	47.27	426	44.98	288	51.80
	75-85	786	28.23	219	23.13	144	25.90
	>85	326	11.71	79	8.34	42	7.55
Gender	Female	1,525	54.78	578	61.03	312	56.12
	Male	1,259	45.22	369	38.97	244	43.88
Marital status	Not married	1,298	46.62	635	67.05	285	51.26
	Married	1,486	53.38	312	32.95	271	48.74
Medicaid	No	2,510	90.16	644	68.00	326	58.63
	Yes	274	9.84	303	32.00	230	41.37
Private Insurance	No	1,342	48.20	658	69.48	447	80.40
	Yes	1,442	51.80	289	30.52	109	19.60
Poverty Categoriesa	Poor	426	15.30	304	32.10	159	28.60
	Near poor	180	6.47	112	11.83	50	8.99
	Low income	494	17.74	209	22.07	131	23.56
	Middle income	813	29.20	211	22.28	160	28.78
	High income	871	31.29	111	11.72	56	10.07
Highest degree	Lower than high school	556	20.12	389	41.65	338	62.36
	High school	1,378	49.87	417	44.65	148	27.31
	Bachelor	370	13.39	52	5.57	32	5.90
	Master and higher	265	9.59	37	3.96	9	1.66
	Other	194	7.02	39	4.18	15	2.77
Region	Northeast	456	16.38	160	16.90	101	18.17
	Midwest	764	27.44	160	16.90	46	8.27
	South	990	35.56	562	59.35	211	37.95
	West	574	20.62	65	6.86	198	35.61
MSA	No	667	23.96	159	16.79	48	8.63
	Yes	2,117	76.04	788	83.21	508	91.37
Self-perceived health status	Excellent	465	17.06	89	9.58	40	7.31
	Very good	779	28.59	183	19.70	89	16.27
	Good	870	31.93	296	31.86	206	37.66
	Fair	409	15.01	275	29.60	173	31.63
	Poor	202	7.41	86	9.26	39	7.13

P<0.05 for the differences between non-Hispanic Whites (Whites) and non-Hispanic Blacks (Blacks) and between Whites and Hispanics for all characteristics except for gender, for which only the former comparison was significant.

^aCategories of poverty status: negative income or poor, <100% of federal poverty line; near poor, 100 <125% of federal poverty line; low income, 125–<200%; middle income, 200–<400%; and high income, 400% and greater.