Table 6_1_1-2c
2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports
The National Healthcare Quality Report (NHQR) is a comprehensive national overview of quality of health care in the United States. It is organized around four dimensions of quality of care: effectiveness, patient safety, timeliness, and patient centeredness.
| Population group | Total | Less than high school | High school graduate | At least some college | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Percent | SE | Percenta | SE | Percenta | SE | Percenta | SE | ||
| Total | 83.9 | 0.0 | 72.8 | 0.1 | 82.0 | 0.0 | 91.2 | 0.0 | |
| Mother's age | 20–24 | 78.9 | 0.0 | 71.1 | 0.1 | 79.6 | 0.1 | 85.0 | 0.1 |
| 25–29 | 86.0 | 0.0 | 73.6 | 0.1 | 83.3 | 0.1 | 91.3 | 0.0 | |
| 30–34 | 89.4 | 0.0 | 75.1 | 0.2 | 84.7 | 0.1 | 93.2 | 0.0 | |
| 35 and over | 88.7 | 0.0 | 73.6 | 0.2 | 83.4 | 0.1 | 92.6 | 0.0 | |
| Mother's race | AI/AN | 69.6 | 0.2 | 60.3 | 0.6 | 69.8 | 0.4 | 80.6 | 0.4 |
| API | 85.3 | 0.1 | 72.0 | 0.4 | 78.8 | 0.2 | 90.0 | 0.1 | |
| Black | 76.3 | 0.1 | 68.1 | 0.2 | 76.1 | 0.1 | 84.5 | 0.1 | |
| White | 85.5 | 0.0 | 73.9 | 0.1 | 84.0 | 0.0 | 92.5 | 0.0 | |
| Mother's ethnicity | Hispanic, all races | 77.6 | 0.1 | 73.9 | 0.1 | 80.4 | 0.1 | 86.9 | 0.1 |
| Non-Hispanic, all races | 85.8 | 0.0 | 71.2 | 0.1 | 82.6 | 0.1 | 91.7 | 0.0 | |
| Non-Hispanic, Black | 76.5 | 0.1 | 68.1 | 0.2 | 76.0 | 0.1 | 84.6 | 0.1 | |
| Non-Hispanic, White | 88.7 | 0.0 | 73.3 | 0.1 | 85.5 | 0.1 | 93.2 | 0.0 | |
| Residence locationb | Metropolitan | 84.4 | 0.0 | 73.7 | 0.1 | 82.2 | 0.0 | 91.5 | 0.0 |
| Large central metro | 84.0 | 0.0 | 76.7 | 0.1 | 81.9 | 0.1 | 91.2 | 0.0 | |
| Large fringe metro | 86.2 | 0.0 | 71.7 | 0.2 | 83.0 | 0.1 | 92.3 | 0.0 | |
| Medium metro | 83.7 | 0.1 | 71.3 | 0.2 | 82.1 | 0.1 | 91.2 | 0.1 | |
| Small metro | 82.5 | 0.1 | 68.8 | 0.2 | 81.6 | 0.1 | 90.3 | 0.1 | |
| Micropolitan (nonmetro) | 81.5 | 0.1 | 67.4 | 0.2 | 81.3 | 0.1 | 89.8 | 0.1 | |
| Noncore (nonmetro) | 81.2 | 0.1 | 66.6 | 0.3 | 81.6 | 0.2 | 89.5 | 0.1 | |
a Education data are for persons age 20 and over and exclude the following States: FL, ID, KS, KY, NE, NH, NY (not including NYC), PA, SC, TN, TX, and WA, that implemented the 2003 Revisions to the U.S Standard Birth Certificate.
b For more information, see the National Vital Statistics System entry in Appendix A, Data Sources.
Key: AI/AN: American Indian or Alaska Native; API: Asian or Pacific Islander; SE: standard error.
Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System - Natality.
Current as of September 2009
Internet Citation: Table 6_1_1-2c: 2008 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports.
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