. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Oct 29.

Published in final edited form as: Psychiatr Serv. 2015 Jan 15;66(4):389–396. doi: 10.1176/appi.ps.201400070

TABLE 1.

Characteristics of 6,206 respondents to the 2004–2010 Medical Expenditure Panel Survey with probable mental illness

	Whites (N=3,111)		Blacks (N=1,390)		Latinos (N=1,705)
Variable	N	Weighted measure^a	N	Weighted measure^a	N	Weighted measure^a
Acute health care expenditures ($)
Inpatient total expenditures		3,178.68		2,205.62^*		1,567.45^*
Mental health		259.38		340.38		62.13^*
General medical		2,919.31		1,865.24^*		1,505.32^*
ER total expenditures		263.17		294.53^*		181.96^*
Mental health		12.01		19.11^*		19.38^*
General medical		251.16		275.41		162.58^*
Appropriate mental health care expenditures (%)
Any outpatient mental health care	886	29.1	215	18.4^*	310	19.2^*
Any psychotropic drug use	1,363	43.3	295	22.7^*	399	24.2
Mental health status (%)
Poor	280	9.6	234	17.9^*	246	16.5^*
Fair	466	16.2	247	18.5^*	323	19.3^*
Good	1,033	32.5	451	31.4	606	33.8
Very good	949	29.5	348	23.3^*	412	23.7^*
Excellent	383	12.4	110	8.8^*	118	6.7^*
Sociodemographic characteristic
Age (%)
18–24	252	9.6	153	12.2^*	191	12.3^*
25–34	425	14.2	216	18.1^*	332	21.9^*
35–44	585	19.2	269	20.3	341	19.4
45–54	708	22.6	321	22.2	360	20.7^*
55–64	570	17.6	231	15.3^*	261	13.6^*
65–74	267	7.6	111	6.2^*	129	6.8^*
≥75	304	9.1	89	5.7^*	91	5.2^*
Female (%)	1,862	58.4	927	62.2^*	1,107	60.5^*
Married (%)	1,447	46.6	376	26.6^*	834	44.3^*
Poverty level (%)
Below poverty line	811	21.0	581	40.3^*	634	32.4^*
Near poverty	235	6.0	135	9.7^*	189	9.2^*
Low income	571	18.6	281	19.2	365	21.2^*
Middle income	885	31.0	302	22.4^*	393	27.2^*
High income	609	23.4	91	8.5^*	124	10.1^*
Education (%)
Less than high school	886	22.8	529	34.5^*	1,020	50.6^*
High school graduate	1,165	38.7	534	38.8^*	403	26.4^*
Some college	629	22.3	233	17.9^*	195	15.6^*
College graduate	431	16.2	94	8.8^*	87	7.5^*
Health insurance (%)
Private	1,476	53.8	453	37.5^*	435	31.4^*
Medicare	946	26.9	354	22.4^*	319	17.7^*
Medicaid	790	20.2	546	36.2^*	614	30.8^*
Other insurance	10	.3	9	.7	12	.7
Uninsured	491	15.9	273	19.8^*	565	32.0^*
Region (%)
Northeast	423	16.6	177	14.1^*	257	17.7^*
Midwest	867	27.8	229	17.9^*	105	6.8^*
South	1,230	36.4	872	59.6^*	593	34.1^*
West	591	19.3	112	8.5^*	750	41.4^*

Calculations were weighted to be representative of the U.S. population.

p<.05, compared with whites