T6_3_8_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 6_3_8.2b
Adolescents ages 13-15 who received at least 1 dose of meningococcal conjugate vaccine, by ethnicity, United States, 2009
				Non-Hispanic
		Total		All races		White		Black		Hispanic, all races
Population group		Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE	Percent	SE
Total		54.8	0.8	59.5	3.3	53.4	0.9	53.4	2.2	58.5	2.5
Gender	Male	54.5	1.1	62.4	4.4	52.9	1.3	49.8	3.0	59.2	3.3
Gender	Female	55.2	1.2	56.4	4.8	53.8	1.3	56.9	3.2	57.8	3.6
Family income^a	Negative/poor	52.6	2.3	62.2	8.2	47.4	3.5	51.0	4.0	54.9	4.3
	Near poor/low	51.7	2.0	55.0	7.2	44.5	2.4	51.2	4.6	63.4	4.3
	Middle	50.9	1.5	60.8	6.7	48.8	1.5	54.8	4.8	53.1	5.5
	High	61.8	1.3	60.1	5.5	61.1	1.4	62.4	4.9	67.9	5.6
Locale type	Metropolitan	58.2	0.9	61.8	3.6	57.7	1.0	55.2	2.4	60.5	2.6
Locale type	Nonmetropolitan	36.6	1.5	45.9	7.3	35.8	1.6	39.4	5.3	32.6	6.6

^a. 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: SE: standard error.

Source: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, National Center for Health Statistics, National Immunization Survey - Teen.

Page last reviewed October 2014

Internet Citation: T6_3_8_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/nhqrdr11/6_maternalchildhealth/T6_3_8_2b.html