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2008 North Carolina Statewide CHAMP Survey Results

Health Care Access and Utilization

Child currently does not have insurance or
at some point in the past 12 months did not have insurance.***

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  Total
Respond.#		 No insurance Insured
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
TOTAL 2,985 350 11.3 10.0-12.8 2,635 88.7 87.2-90.0
GENDER
Male 1,539 172 11.4 9.6-13.6 1,367 88.6 86.4-90.4
Female 1,446 178 11.3 9.4-13.4 1,268 88.7 86.6-90.6
RACE
White 2,024 183 8.0 6.8- 9.5 1,841 92.0 90.5-93.2
African American 426 51 12.3 9.0-16.4 375 87.7 83.6-91.0
Other Minorities 534 116 21.6 17.5-26.2 418 78.4 73.8-82.5
HISPANIC
Yes 308 83 25.9 20.4-32.2 225 74.1 67.8-79.6
No 2,669 266 9.4 8.1-10.8 2,403 90.6 89.2-91.9
AGE GROUPS
Under 5 757 73 9.6 7.3-12.4 684 90.4 87.6-92.7
5 through 10 925 110 12.1 9.8-15.0 815 87.9 85.0-90.2
11 through 13 500 65 12.7 9.5-16.7 435 87.3 83.3-90.5
14 through 17 803 102 11.5 8.9-14.6 701 88.5 85.4-91.1
PARENT EDUCATION
Less H.S. 207 61 30.8 23.6-39.2 146 69.2 60.8-76.4
H.S. 500 87 14.7 11.5-18.8 413 85.3 81.2-88.5
Some College 757 111 13.4 10.8-16.6 646 86.6 83.4-89.2
College Graduate 1,516 90 6.4 5.0- 8.2 1,426 93.6 91.8-95.0
SCHOOL
Public 1,967 254 12.6 10.9-14.5 1,713 87.4 85.5-89.1
Private/Home 279 22 7.2 4.4-11.4 257 92.8 88.6-95.6
GRADE
Not In School 730 70 9.6 7.3-12.6 660 90.4 87.4-92.7
K-5th 1,015 121 11.9 9.7-14.5 894 88.1 85.5-90.3
6th-8th 494 64 13.5 10.0-17.8 430 86.5 82.2-90.0
9th-12th* 745 95 11.1 8.6-14.2 650 88.9 85.8-91.4
HEALTH INSURANCE
State Health Plan 133 3 4.5 1.3-14.2 130 95.5 85.8-98.7
Private 1,627 57 3.8 2.7- 5.2 1,570 96.2 94.8-97.3
Health Choice 129 26 17.9 11.5-26.8 103 82.1 73.2-88.5
Medicaid 658 88 11.9 9.3-15.1 570 88.1 84.9-90.7
Other 255 13 3.9 2.0- 7.4 242 96.1 92.6-98.0
CHILDREN WITH SHCN**
Yes 297 27 6.5 4.2-10.0 270 93.5 90.0-95.8
No 2,660 321 11.9 10.4-13.5 2,339 88.1 86.5-89.6

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*Includes those in college or other post high school education
**SHCN=Children with Special Health Care Needs

*** The no insurance group includes children with no insurance at the time of the interview or who had been without insurance sometime within the past 12 months (responded 'No' to question 1 or 'Yes' to question 4 of Health Care Access and Utilization module).

^Use caution in interpreting cell sizes less than 50. N = numerator, % = 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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