Center for Studying Health System Change

Supplementary Table 4. Income and Access to Employer-Sponsored Health Insurance among African American, Latino, and white persons, 1997-2001

Note: This table suggests that uninsured persons are more likely to have lower income and less access to employer-sponsored insurance regardless of race. However, uninsured Whites gain greater access to insurance because they generally have greater financial resources than uninsured individuals of other races.

		Without Health Insurance				With Health Insurance
		1997	1999	2001		1997	1999	2001
Income above 200% of Federal Poverty Level
	African American	29.8	29.2	33.3		51.4a	53.6a	56.6a #
	Latino	22.6	26.2	28.2		47.8a	54.5* a	55.7a #
	White	43.6	43.5	52.4		77.6	80.1*	83.0#
Has access to employer-sponsored insurance
	African American	39.7a b	39.8a	40.0a		90.7a	90.1a	92.5* b
	Latino	31.3	33.4	33.4		87.9a	87.8a	88.1a
	White	33.3	32.7	31.4		93.9	93.6	93.9
Source: Community Tracking Study Household Surveys, 1997-2001 Bold text indicates that estimates for uninsured persons were statistically, significantly different from estimates for insured persons. * Change from previous round is statistically significant at p<.05 # Change from 1996-97 to 2000-01 is statistically significant at p<.05 a African Americans or Latinos were different from whites in the same year b African Americans were different from Latinos in the same year.