Table 1_2_1-2c

2010 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.

Table 1_2_1.2c
Women age 18 and over who received a Pap smear in the last 3 years,^a by family income,^b United States, 2008
		Total		Negative/poor		Near poor/low		Middle		High
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		75.6	0.5	68.1	1.4	67.1	1.3	74.2	0.9	82.8	0.8
Age	18-44	81.8	0.7	76.5	1.8	75.5	1.7	82.6	1.3	87.0	1.1
	45-64	78.8	0.8	66.2	2.8	65.7	2.7	75.4	1.7	87.1	1.0
	65 and over	50.1	1.3	41.9	3.3	43.6	2.4	45.9	2.1	65.8	2.4
Race	AI/AN only	67.5	4.8	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Asian only	64.4	2.0	59.0	7.0	51.4	5.3	59.2	5.0	71.4	3.5
	NHOPI only	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
	Black only	79.3	1.2	74.8	2.3	76.5	2.5	80.4	2.4	84.0	2.7
	White only	75.8	0.5	65.7	1.8	65.7	1.5	74.2	1.1	83.6	0.9
	Multiple races	74.5	3.5	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU	76.5	5.3
Ethnicity	Hispanic, all races	73.7	1.3	69.2	2.5	69.7	2.7	73.5	2.4	82.1	2.8
	Non-Hispanic, all races	76.0	0.5	68.1	1.6	67.0	1.5	74.4	1.0	82.9	0.9
	Non-Hispanic, Black	79.3	1.2	74.7	2.4	76.0	2.6	80.7	2.4	84.2	2.7
	Non-Hispanic, White	76.6	0.6	65.4	2.1	65.7	1.8	74.5	1.2	83.7	0.9
Health insurance,^c ages 18-64	Private	84.3	0.6	75.5	3.5	77.2	1.9	82.6	1.2	87.0	0.9
	Public only	79.8	1.3	78.1	2.0	78.0	2.7	79.4	3.4	88.5	3.5
	Uninsured	66.3	1.4	67.2	2.7	61.2	2.7	68.3	2.8	73.0	4.2
Health insurance, age 65 and over	Medicare and private	51.2	1.7	49.0	6.9	40.6	3.3	46.8	2.6	65.6	2.9
	Medicare and public	46.1	3.0	36.4	4.7	44.5	6.5	44.9	8.1	66.2	7.9
	Medicare only	50.3	2.0	44.7	5.6	47.2	3.4	45.2	4.1	66.5	4.5
Education, age 25 and over	Less than high school	66.3	1.5	64.5	2.4	61.2	2.6	67.2	3.2	85.0	3.0
	High school graduate	72.0	1.1	70.0	2.5	63.2	2.3	71.3	1.7	81.4	1.8
	At least some college	81.3	0.6	73.8	2.5	71.6	1.9	78.1	1.2	85.9	0.8
Location of residence^d	Metropolitan	76.3	0.5	68.5	1.5	68.4	1.4	74.2	1.0	83.1	0.9
	Large central metro	75.2	0.9	67.6	2.4	69.7	2.2	74.6	1.8	80.2	1.7
	Large fringe metro	78.1	0.9	70.3	3.5	68.9	3.1	71.5	2.0	85.2	1.3
	Medium metro	76.3	1.1	69.0	3.0	69.2	2.6	76.2	1.7	82.3	1.6
	Small metro	74.8	1.6	68.4	4.3	64.1	3.5	73.7	2.5	87.5	2.7
	Micropolitan (nonmetro)	72.2	1.7	64.8	4.4	62.4	3.9	76.1	2.5	76.2	3.8
	Noncore (nonmetro)	74.0	1.9	69.2	4.4	60.8	5.5	74.0	2.6	86.5	3.6
Activity limitations,^d age 18 and over	Basic activities	71.5	1.6	67.9	3.2	70.3	2.6	69.8	3.4	80.4	3.3
	Complex activities	66.4	1.7	66.5	3.1	61.3	3.4	65.4	3.4	74.7	4.8
	Neither basic nor complex activities	78.2	0.5	68.3	2.0	68.6	1.5	76.4	1.0	84.0	0.9

^a Estimates are age adjusted to the 2000 standard population. Age data and health insurance data for age 65 and over are unadjusted.

^b Negative or poor refers to family incomes below the Federal poverty line for a given household size and composition; near poor/low, over the poverty line to just below 200 percent of the poverty line; middle, 200 percent to just below 400 percent of the poverty line; and high, 400 percent of the poverty line and over.

^c A small number of people who were covered by both public and private health insurance plans were included in the "private" category only.��

^d For more information, see the National Health Interview Survey entry in Appendix A, Data Sources.��

DSU - Data do not meet the criteria for statistical reliability, data quality, or confidentiality.

Key: AI/AN: American Indian or Alaska Native; NHOPI: Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander; SE: standard error.

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, National Health Interview Survey.

Page last reviewed October 2014

Internet Citation: Table 1_2_1-2c: 2010 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. October 2014. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr10/1_cancer/T1_2_1-2c.html