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Children without health insurance by race and ethnicity in United States

Children without health insurance by race and ethnicity

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Note: Non-consecutive years appear adjacent in the trend line
because one or more years have been deselected.

Definition and Source

PROVIDER

Definition

Children under age 18 not covered by any health insurance by race and ethnicity. 
The data are based on health insurance coverage at the time of the survey; interviews are conducted throughout the calendar year. Children receiving health insurance through a variety of State Health Insurance Programs (SCHIP) are counted as having health insurance.

Data Source

Population Reference Bureau, analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau, 2008 - 2016 American Community Survey. 
These data are derived from data available in American Fact Finder table C27001 (B,C,D,E,G,H,I) (factfinder2.census.gov).

Notes

Updated September 2017. 
S - Estimates suppressed when the confidence interval around the percentage is greater than or equal to 10 percentage points. 
N.A. – Data not available. 
A 90 percent confidence interval for each estimate can be found at Children without health insurance by race and ethnicity.

Last Updated

October 2018