3. Sociodemographic Characteristics of Uninsured Adolescents
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Understanding the sociodemographic factors that are related to adolescent health insurance status is key to unraveling the problem of those who are uninsured. Parent’s insurance status, poverty and family income, who adolescents live with, race and ethnicity, parent’s marital status and education, region and residence, and parent’s work status, and employment characteristics are all related to insurance status (see appendix D). However, many demographic and socioeconomic characteristics of adolescents are highly intercorrelated, and most are correlated with family income. The following examines these relationships and assesses their correlation with health insurance status independent of family income. 1
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Appendix D.--bivariate Relationships among Insurance Status and Selected Sociodemographic Characteristics of Uninsured Adolescents
Appendix D analyzes the bivariate relationships between a number of demographic and household factors and the likelihood of an adolescent being without health coverage. These include: parent’s insurance status, poverty and family income, adolescents’ living arrangements, race and ethnicity, parent’s marital status, parent’s education region and residence, and parent’s work status and other empl...
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