Table 1_2_1_2b

2011 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_1.2b
Women ages 21-65 who received a Pap smear in the last 3 years,^a by ethnicity, United States, 2008
				Non-Hispanic						Hispanic, all races
		Total		All races		White		Black		Hispanic, all races
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		84.5	0.5	85.1	0.6	86.1	0.7	86.1	1.3	81.3	1.4
Age, not age adjusted	21-44	85.0	0.7	85.7	0.7	87.1	0.8	85.7	1.7	81.8	1.5
Age, not age adjusted	45-65	83.7	0.8	76.2	0.8	84.6	1.0	86.1	2.2	80.8	2.7
Health insurance,^b ages 21-64	Private	88.7	0.6	88.7	0.6	90.0	0.6	88.9	1.7	87.8	1.6
	Public	84.4	1.4	83.8	1.7	82.2	2.2	87.2	2.5	87.4	2.2
	Uninsured	67.5	1.5	66.5	2.0	65.8	2.3	75.5	3.5	70.1	3.1
Family income^c	Negative/poor	76.4	1.7	76.0	2.0	73.1	2.8	84.4	2.5	78.5	2.7
	Near poor/low	74.7	1.7	75.0	2.0	74.4	2.4	80.6	3.5	74.0	3.4
	Middle	82.8	1.1	82.8	1.2	83.4	1.4	86.0	2.6	83.3	2.3
	High	91.0	0.7	91.0	0.7	91.9	0.8	92.2	2.0	90.0	2.3
Education, ages 25-65	Less than high school	75.0	1.9	73.5	2.8	69.9	3.6	85.2	2.8	77.2	2.6
	High school graduate	78.9	1.3	79.4	1.5	79.8	1.7	80.0	3.2	77.2	3.0
	At least some college	89.0	0.6	89.2	0.6	90.1	0.6	90.9	1.5	87.1	2.2
Location of residence^d	Metropolitan	84.9	0.6	85.6	0.6	86.7	0.7	86.7	1.3	81.1	1.5
	Large central metro	83.1	1.0	83.6	1.1	85.7	1.5	84.3	2.3	81.4	1.8
	Large fringe metro	86.2	1.0	86.2	1.0	87.0	1.2	86.8	2.6	85.2	2.6
	Medium metro	86.2	1.2	87.2	1.2	87.6	1.2	92.1	1.8	80.2	3.7
	Small metro	83.6	1.8	85.0	1.8	84.8	2.1	85.1	4.1	72.3	8.9
	Micropolitan	83.1	2.0	83.1	2.2	84.4	2.3	81.1	5.6	84.1	5.9
	Noncore (nonmetropolitan)	81.4	2.2	81.4	2.3	83.0	2.6	DSU	DSU	DSU	DSU
Activity limitations^d	Basic activities	82.9	1.6	83.3	1.8	82.3	2.0	88.8	3.7	80.9	3.7
	Complex activities	78.9	2.2	78.1	2.4	75.6	3.0	85.4	4.0	85.3	3.5
	Neither basic nor complex activities	85.4	0.5	86.0	0.6	87.6	0.7	85.9	1.5	81.5	1.6

^a. Estimates are age adjusted to the 2000 U.S. standard population. Age data are unadjusted.

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

^c. Negative/poor refers to family incomes below the Federal poverty line; near poor/low, 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.

^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: 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_2b: 2011 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. October 2014. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr11/1_cancer/T1_2_1_2b.html