T6_3_2_1

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 6_3_2.1
Children ages 19-35 months who received 4 or more doses of diphtheria-pertussis-tetanus vaccine,^a United States, 2009
Population group		Percent	SE
Total^b		83.9	0.5
Race	AI/AN only	75.4	5.7
	Asian only	88.6	2.4
	NHOPI only	78.1	7.6
	Black only	79.0	1.5
	White only	85.1	0.6
	Multiple races	81.7	2.0
Ethnicity	Hispanic, all races	82.9	1.3
	Non-Hispanic, all races	84.3	0.5
	Non-Hispanic, Black	78.6	1.6
	Non-Hispanic, White	85.8	0.6
Gender	Male	83.4	0.7
Gender	Female	84.6	0.7
Family income^c	Negative/poor	81.2	1.2
	Near poor/low	81.9	1.1
	Middle	84.1	1.1
	High	90.5	0.7

^a. Four or more doses of any diphtheria and tetanus toxoids and pertussis vaccines, including diphtheria and tetanus toxoids, and any acellular pertussis vaccine (DTP/DTaP/DT).

^b. National total estimates include the 50 States and District of Columbia and exclude the Virgin Islands.

^c. Negative/poor refers to household 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.

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 Immunizations and Respiratory Diseases and National Center for Health Statistics, National Immunization Survey.

Page last reviewed October 2014

Internet Citation: T6_3_2_1: 2011 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports. October 2014. Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality, Rockville, MD. http://archive.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqrdr11/6_maternalchildhealth/T6_3_2_1.html