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2003 BRFSS Survey Results: Nationwide Data

Health Care Access

Health Insurance Coverage for Those Employed for Wages (Age under 65)*

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  Total
Respond.#
Yes No
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
All Participants 126988 112392 86.2 85.8-86.6 14,596 13.8 13.4-14.2
Alabama 1,457 1,292 87.8 85.5-89.7 165 12.2 10.3-14.5
Alaska 1,518 1,319 85.6 82.7-88.1 199 14.4 11.9-17.3
Arizona 1,321 1,146 86.7 83.3-89.4 175 13.3 10.6-16.7
Arkansas 1,875 1,595 83.3 81.1-85.3 280 16.7 14.7-18.9
California 2,007 1,785 85.7 83.5-87.5 222 14.3 12.5-16.5
Colorado 2,049 1,825 85.6 83.5-87.5 224 14.4 12.5-16.5
Connecticut 2,749 2,556 90.9 89.3-92.3 193 9.1 7.7-10.7
Delaware 2,160 1,991 92.2 90.5-93.6 169 7.8 6.4- 9.5
District of Columbia 1,133 1,078 93.0 90.5-94.8 55 7.0 5.2- 9.5
Florida 1,942 1,595 81.5 78.6-84.0 347 18.5 16.0-21.4
Georgia 3,710 3,219 86.3 84.6-87.9 491 13.7 12.1-15.4
Hawaii 3,028 2,827 93.2 91.9-94.3 201 6.8 5.7- 8.1
Idaho 2,267 1,963 86.6 84.8-88.2 304 13.4 11.8-15.2
Illinois 2,787 2,491 87.7 85.9-89.3 296 12.3 10.7-14.1
Indiana 2,729 2,427 86.9 85.3-88.4 302 13.1 11.6-14.7
Iowa 2,509 2,293 88.9 87.0-90.6 216 11.1 9.4-13.0
Kansas 2,437 2,182 88.0 86.1-89.6 255 12.0 10.4-13.9
Kentucky 2,791 2,414 85.5 83.2-87.4 377 14.5 12.6-16.8
Louisiana 2,330 1,877 79.2 77.1-81.1 453 20.8 18.9-22.9
Maine 1,195 1,075 89.0 86.6-91.0 120 11.0 9.0-13.4
Maryland 2,357 2,173 89.9 87.8-91.6 184 10.1 8.4-12.2
Massachusetts 3,969 3,657 91.0 89.6-92.2 312 9.0 7.8-10.4
Michigan 1,603 1,476 89.8 87.7-91.7 127 10.2 8.3-12.3
Minnesota 2,046 1,948 94.1 92.7-95.4 98 5.9 4.6- 7.3
Mississippi 1,987 1,685 84.0 81.9-85.8 302 16.0 14.2-18.1
Missouri 1,967 1,735 88.3 86.1-90.1 232 11.7 9.9-13.9
Montana 1,787 1,449 81.7 79.0-84.1 338 18.3 15.9-21.0
Nebraska 2,556 2,336 89.4 87.7-90.9 220 10.6 9.1-12.3
Nevada 1,495 1,258 81.6 78.3-84.5 237 18.4 15.5-21.7
New Hampshire 2,629 2,406 90.6 89.1-91.9 223 9.4 8.1-10.9
New Jersey 5,684 5,188 87.5 86.2-88.8 496 12.5 11.2-13.8
New Mexico 2,441 1,990 79.7 77.6-81.6 451 20.3 18.4-22.4
New York 2,670 2,386 84.8 82.7-86.6 284 15.2 13.4-17.3
North Carolina 4,316 3,740 84.4 82.5-86.2 576 15.6 13.8-17.5
North Dakota 1,510 1,354 88.8 86.7-90.6 156 11.2 9.4-13.3
Ohio 1,932 1,779 90.4 88.4-92.1 153 9.6 7.9-11.6
Oklahoma 3,395 2,886 82.1 80.3-83.7 509 17.9 16.3-19.7
Oregon 1,749 1,503 83.0 80.7-85.1 246 17.0 14.9-19.3
Pennsylvania 1,788 1,642 90.3 88.4-91.9 146 9.7 8.1-11.6
Rhode Island 2,071 1,888 89.1 87.1-90.8 183 10.9 9.2-12.9
South Carolina 2,717 2,378 83.7 81.7-85.6 339 16.3 14.4-18.3
South Dakota 2,627 2,329 87.9 86.3-89.4 298 12.1 10.6-13.7
Tennessee 1,216 1,098 87.8 85.1-90.1 118 12.2 9.9-14.9
Texas 2,815 2,259 76.1 74.0-78.1 556 23.9 21.9-26.0
Utah 1,997 1,729 83.5 80.8-85.8 268 16.5 14.2-19.2
Vermont 2,059 1,892 90.5 88.7-92.0 167 9.5 8.0-11.3
Virginia 2,788 2,503 89.7 88.0-91.1 285 10.3 8.9-12.0
Washington 8,427 7,464 87.5 86.4-88.4 963 12.5 11.6-13.6
West Virginia 1,339 1,135 83.1 80.6-85.4 204 16.9 14.6-19.4
Wisconsin 2,248 2,055 90.7 89.0-92.2 193 9.3 7.8-11.0
Wyoming 1,971 1,666 83.1 81.1-85.0 305 16.9 15.0-18.9
Guam 474 411 84.5 79.9-88.1 63 15.5 11.9-20.1
Puerto Rico 1,304 1,207 89.6 86.7-91.9 97 10.4 8.1-13.3
Virgin Islands 1,060 837 75.9 72.0-79.5 223 24.1 20.5-28.0

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+ Only participating states or terretories are presented here.

* Data in this table were derived from health insurance question and only those under age 65 and employed for wages included

#Use caution in interpreting cell sizes less than 50. N = Cell Size, % = Percentage, C.I.(95%) = Confidence Interval (at 95 percent probability level).
Percentages are weighted to population characteristics and therefore cannot be calculated exactly from the numbers in this table.

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