Table 1.

Characteristics of Non-Hispanic White and Asian Respondents, Disaggregated by Subgroup, 2014–2016

	White n = 19,021	Asian Americans (aggregate) n = 3077		Chinese n = 1247		Korean n = 327		Filipino n = 560		Vietnamese n = 585		Japanese n = 358
		%	p*	%	p*	%	p*	%	p*	%	p*	%	p*
Predisposing factors
Age
18–34	32.44	40.89	< 0.01	44.22	< 0.01	46.19	0.03	40.82	0.05	35.13	0.56	25.53	0.32
35–64	67.66	59.11		55.78		53.81		59.18		64.87		74.47
Female	49.21	54.22	< 0.01	53.43	0.13	61.39	0.03	52.32	0.37	51.53	0.63	61.45	0.10
Education
Does not have high school diploma	3.95	6.78	< 0.01	7.22	< 0.01	2.99	0.16	0.86	0.05	23.13	< 0.01	0.88	0.01
High school diploma	19.33	15.38		12.09		16.82		15.20		23.38		10.66
Some college	15.74	12.11		7.98		11.06		18.82		10.27		5.95
Vocational school/AA or AS degree	12.09	6.73		4.23		6.54		9.49		4.21		13.53
College degree or higher	48.90	59.00		68.47		62.60		55.64		39.00		68.98
Marital status: married	51.68	53.38	0.42	51.87	0.96	54.24	0.67	50.49	0.78	59.18	0.11	61.02	0.14
Enabling factors
Income, by federal poverty level (FPL)
0–138% FPL	14.34	20.24	< 0.01	19.30	0.23	16.61	0.31	16.94	0.07	36.93	< 0.01	6.29	0.35
139–249% FPL	12.27	13.86		10.89		17.18		16.68		13.25		9.97
250–399% FPL	17.34	17.66		16.39		20.65		19.84		13.63		17.43
400% FPL or more	56.05	48.23		53.41		45.56		46.54		36.19		66.32
Unemployed	25.48	23.85	0.40	22.87	0.39	27.13	0.77	22.20	0.35	27.89	0.56	20.53	0.33
Health insurance coverage
Uninsured	7.28	10.26	0.01	9.03	0.32	10.48	0.20	10.62	0.12	12.86	0.02	8.45	0.75
Employer-sponsored	62.84	58.63	0.03	61.33	0.63	47.63	< 0.01	63.93	0.78	46.93	< 0.01	69.30	0.27
Medicaid	14.61	18.79	0.01	14.34	0.91	19.09	0.31	19.84	0.08	29.47	< 0.01	9.04	0.30
Individually purchased	10.92	10.55	0.79	14.11	0.17	20.41	< 0.01	2.99	< 0.01	9.81	0.67	12.48	0.67
Medicare	4.36	1.76	< 0.01	1.18	< 0.01	2.39	0.42	2.62	0.12	1.12	< 0.01	0.73	< 0.01
Need factors
Fair or poor self-reported health	13.14	17.86	< 0.01	15.82	0.28	17.38	0.31	14.46	0.59	30.61	< 0.01	15.14	0.69
One or more chronic conditions	65.73	49.14	< 0.01	43.97	< 0.01	31.98	< 0.01	66.13	0.03	37.76	< 0.01	52.85	0.10
Acculturation factors
Born in the USA	89.78	32.16	< 0.01	30.01	< 0.01	24.18	< 0.01	36.49	< 0.01	20.81	< 0.01	70.02	< 0.01
US citizen	96.55	77.73	< 0.01	75.01	< 0.01	60.17	< 0.01	81.66	< 0.01	87.81	< 0.01	82.72	< 0.01
Percent of life in the USA
0–20	1.68	14.17	< 0.01	18.92	< 0.01	14.78	< 0.01	11.29	< 0.01	12.57	< 0.01	5.03	< 0.01
21–40	1.89	14.89		17.08		16.78		13.17		15.20		5.98
41–60	2.25	17.78		16.31		16.89		17.52		25.08		9.68
61–80	1.95	12.18		12.21		13.21		8.56		21.16		5.34
81 or more	92.22	41.01		35.48		38.33		49.46		25.99		73.96
English proficiency	99.68	82.22	< 0.01	78.89	< 0.01	74.13	< 0.01	97.26	< 0.01	60.51	< 0.01	94.81	< 0.01

*p value according to χ² tests for differences, relative to non-Hispanic White respondents. Survey weights were applied to reflect population distributions