
Children 17 and below without health insurance in the United States
Why This Indicator Matters
This indicator is included in the KIDS COUNT Child Well-Being Index. Read the KIDS COUNT Data Book to learn more: http://datacenter.kidscount.org/publications.
Children 17 and below without health insurance
because one or more years have been deselected.
Definitions:
Children under age 18 not covered by any health insurance.
The data are based on health insurance coverage at the time of the survey; interviews are conducted throughout the calendar year. Children receiving health insurance through a variety of State Health Insurance Programs (SCHIP) are counted as having health insurance.
Data Source:
Population Reference Bureau, analysis of data from the U.S. Census Bureau, 2008-2016 American Community Survey.
These data are derived from data available in American Fact Finder table C27001 (factfinder2.census.gov).
Footnotes:
Updated September 2017.
S - Estimates suppressed when the confidence interval around the percentage is greater than or equal to 10 percentage points.
N.A. – Data not available.
A 90 percent confidence interval for each estimate can be found at Children 17 and below without health insurance.