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Table 1 Selected sociodemographic characteristics of US children 0-17 years old (N = 90,117) by race/ethnicity (2007 NSCH)

From: Trends in racial/ethnic disparities in medical and oral health, access to care, and use of services in US children: has anything changed over the years?

 

Mean or Proportion for

 

Characteristic

Whites N = 61,377

Latinos N = 11,523

African-Americans N = 8,873

Asians/PacificIsl anders N = 2,771

American Indians/ Alaska Natives N = 1,244

Multiracial Children N = 4,329

P

Mean age (yrs)

8.8

8.1

9.1

7.8

8.5

7.6

<.0001

Male gender (%)

51.8

51.0

50.1

46.1

53.3

49.6

.21

Highest educational attainment in household (%)

      

<.0001

Not a high-school graduate

3.3

26.7

10.4

3.6

11.3

4.8

 

High-school graduate

19.2

31.3

32.1

12.4

34.4

21.8

 

At least some college

77.5

42.0

57.6

84.0

53.4

73.4

 

Primary language spoken at home not English (%)

1.0

52.1

1.9

40.9

3.8

1.3

<.0001

Number of children in household (%)

      

<.0001

1

23.6

16.4

27.4

28.6

28.0

27.2

 

2

41.3

35.6

33.4

45.8

34.0

36.8

 

3

25.6

33.4

25.4

18.3

22.9

25.3

 

>3

9.5

14.6

13.7

7.3

15.0

10.8

 

Number of adults in household (%)

      

<.0001

1

8.5

9.6

28.1

5.1

19.7

14.7

 

2

75.4

61.4

49.8

68.1

56.9

65.9

 

>2

16.1

29.0

22.1

26.8

23.4

19.4

 

Adult in household employed ≥50 weeks in past year (%)

93.0

79.1

82.5

89.4

79.9

89.1

<.0001

Combined family income: % of federal poverty threshold (%)

      

<.0001

<100%

8.1

31.4

28.7

9.0

30.1

15.9

 

100%-199%

15.7

26.1

25.6

13.1

22.9

22.7

 

200% - 299%

18.7

12.9

14.5

10.9

14.0

15.6

 

300% - 399%

15.3

7.2

8.9

13.4

10.8

11.9

 

≥400%

35.4

11.8

13.5

41.4

15.3

27.7

 

Unknown

6.9

10.7

.8

12.2

7.0

.1

 
  1. Data source: non-public data set of the 2007 National Survey of Childhood Health.