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Adults living in households with children who delayed getting medical care because of the coronavirus pandemic in United States

Adults living in households with children who delayed getting medical care because of the coronavirus pandemic

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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

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Definition

The percentage of adults living in households with children birth to age 17 who reported that they delayed getting medical care because of the coronavirus pandemic. On March 13, 2020, the U.S. government declared the COVID-19 pandemic a national emergency, thus marking the start of the pandemic in the United States. Only respondents who provided a valid response are included. 

Data Source

Population Reference Bureau analysis of the U.S. Census Bureau, Household Pulse Survey, 2020-2021

Notes

Updated July 2021
S - Estimates suppressed when the effective sample size is less than 30 or the 90% confidence interval is greater than 30 percentage points or 1.3 times the estimate.
A 90 percent confidence interval for each estimate can be found at Adults living in households with children who delayed getting medical care because of the coronavirus pandemic.

Last Updated

July 2021