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Supplementary Table 1
Income, Access to Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance, and Insurance Coverage among African American, Latino, and white persons, 1997-2001
Note: This table shows that insurance coverage can be affected by income, work status, and access to employer-sponsored insurance. Insurance coverage for African Americans and Latinos is significantly lower than the coverage for Whites because African Americans and Latinos tend to have lower income and work at jobs that may not provide health insurance.
| 1997 | 1999 | 2001 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Income above 200% of the Federal Poverty Level | African American | 47.1 | 49.0 | 52.3# |
| Latino | 39.3 | 45.4* | 46.9# | |
| White | 73.3 | 75.7* | 79.7*# | |
| Percent of adults aged 18-64 in families with one or more workers1 | African American | 70.3 | 72.5 | 71.3 |
| Latino | 74.8 | 77.7* | 74.5 | |
| White | 85.0 | 85.8 | 84.9 | |
| Adults in working families with access to employer-sponsored insurance2,3 | African American | 80.8 | 81.5 | 84.3# |
| Latino | 69.0 | 70.7 | 71.3 | |
| White | 85.9 | 86.0 | 87.1# | |
| Has health insurance (Public and Private) | African American | 79.9 | 81.3 | 81.3 |
| Latino | 66.3 | 68.1 | 68.0 | |
| White | 87.5 | 88.1* | 89.2# |
DATA SOURCE: Community Tracking Study Household Survey, 1997-2001.
1A working family is defined as one in which total number of hours worked by all adult members of the family is 20 or more hours per week. Dependents of adults on active military duty are included while families in which all adult members are self-employed and have no paid employees are excluded.
2 Excludes people with health insurance from someone outside of the family.
3 Access rate is defined at the family level. As long as one member of the family has access to ESI coverage, all members of that family have access to ESI.
Estimates in bold text are significantly different from whites
* Change from previous round is statistically significant at p<.05.
# Change from 1996-97 to 2000-01 is statistically significant at p<.05.
