Table 1.

Sociodemographic characteristics of individuals with cancer in the SEER-CAHPS Illness Burden Index sample

	Group 1	Group 2	Group 3	Group 4
	Surveyed pre-diagnosis		Surveyed post-diagnosis
	MA, %* (Unweighted n=16,222)	FFS, %* (Unweighted n=15,647)	MA, %* (Unweighted n=42,834)	FFS, %* (Unweighted n=42,032)
Age in yrs on survey date
18–64	6.1	8.8	5.8	6.6
65–69	22.4	23.8	18.8	19.7
70–74	24.8	22.7	22.5	22.1
75–79	21.4	19.5	21.1	20.1
80–84	15.2	15.0	17.3	17.1
85 or older	10.1	10.2	14.4	14.4
Female	50.8	51.5	51.0	51.1
Race/ethnicity
White, non-Hispanic	79.0	84.3	78.8	86.2
Black, non-Hispanic	11.5	8.9	10.2	6.7
Hispanic, any race	2.3	1.8	2.2	1.3
Asian, non-Hispanic	3.8	2.5	4.5	2.5
Other/unknown	3.4	2.5	4.4	3.2
Married	52.5	52.3	66.9	69.1
Lives alone	31.1	30.8	30.3	29.3
Continuously enrolled	98.7	93.1	98.9	93.6
Dual (Medicare + Medicaid)	15.9	14.8	12.7	10.0
Neighborhood poverty level
<5%	19.4	20.9	23.6	27.0
5 to <10%	27.1	25.8	24.7	24.4
10 to <20%	30.4	29.6	22.9	22.1
20%+	22.0	21.7	14.0	12.6
Missing	1.1	2.0	14.8	13.8
Educational attainment
Less than 12 years	21.1	20.3	17.6	14.4
12 to 15 years	51.9	50.9	52.4	51.5
16 or more years	17.3	21.0	21.8	27.1
Missing	9.6	7.8	8.1	7.0
Urban/rural residence
Metropolitan	95.6	86.7	95.9	88.9
Non-metropolitan, non-rural	3.5	10.6	3.2	8.8
Rural	0.7	2.6	0.7	2.1
Census region
Northeast	12.8	18.6	11.9	18.1
Midwest	7.0	11.6	10.4	14.8
South	21.1	27.9	16.5	19.1
West	59.0	41.9	61.2	47.9

Source: Authors’ analysis of SEER-CAHPS, 2007–2013. FFS: fee-for-service; MA: Medicare Advantage.

^*Unweighted percentages shown.