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.