Table 1.

Demographic characteristics of study population (in 2016)

	Variable	Medicaid enrolled population (IBM Watson Data)	Nationally representative sample of Medicaid enrolled population	Population with at least one dental visit (IBM Watson)	Population with one or more emergency dental visits (IBM Watson)
	Count	% within categories	% within categories	% within categories	% within categories
Sex
Male	5,721,884	43	44	46	39
Female	7,571,087	57	56	54	61
Race
White	6,436,589	47	40	47	51
Black	4,245,692	32	19	32	30
Hispanic	704,674	9	29	9	6
Other	1,906,016	12	12	12	13
Age
0–10	4,054,204	33	30	46	29
11–20	2,955,882	24	25	32	24
21–34	2,220,470	18	18	10	21
35–51	1,684,552	14	15	8	16
51–64	1,329,492	11	12	5	11
Total	12,244,600	100	100	32 had dental visit	5 had emergency dental visit

National estimates of the Medicaid enrolled population are derived from the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey (2016)