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. 2019 Aug;109(8):1111–1118. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2019.305130

TABLE 1—

Patient Sociodemographic Characteristics Reported by US Health Centers, 2016 Uniform Data System

All Patients, % (n = 25 860 296)
Sex assigned at birth
 Female 57.8
 Male 42.2
Age, y
 < 18 31.0
 18–64 60.7
 ≥ 65 8.3
Race
 Asian 3.4
 Native Hawaiian/other Pacific Islander 1.0
 Black/African American 19.5
 American Indian/Alaska Native 1.2
 White 58.2
 More than 1 race 2.8
 Unreported/refuseda 14.0
Ethnicity
 Hispanic/Latino 34.3
 Non-Hispanic/Latino 62.4
 Unreported/refusedb 3.3
Patients best served in a language other than English 23.6
Income as percentage of US Department of Health and Human Services poverty guidelines
 ≤ 100% 50.6
 > 100% 21.7
 Unknownc 27.7
a

Patients who did not report race, or patients of health centers that did not distinguish White Hispanic/Latino patients from Black Hispanic/Latino patients.

b

Patients who did not report race or Hispanic/Latino ethnicity.

c

Patients whose income information was not collected within a year of their last visit.