2008 National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) Data

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Table 4-2
Standard Errors† for Current Asthma Prevalence Percents
by Age, United States: National Health Interview Survey, 2008
				Age (years)
						15-34
Characteristic	All ages Total	Children Age <18	Adults Age 18+	0 – 4	5 – 14	15 – 34	15 – 19	20 – 24	25 – 34	35 – 64	65+
Total:	0.19	0.40	0.22	0.66	0.59	0.39	0.86	0.93	0.50	0.30	0.42
Male	0.26	0.65	0.29	1.11	0.90	0.56	1.37	1.28	0.67	0.36	0.64
Female	0.26	0.49	0.31	0.70	0.73	0.53	1.21	1.29	0.71	0.44	0.60

White Non-Hispanic:	0.24	0.55	0.27	0.92	0.76	0.55	1.29	1.15	0.67	0.37	0.47
Male	0.34	0.91	0.38	1.58	1.30	0.78	2.04	1.67	0.84	0.45	0.72
Female	0.33	0.60	0.39	0.80	0.82	0.76	1.76	1.67	0.98	0.55	0.68

Black Non-Hispanic:	0.54	1.14	0.53	1.83	1.56	0.98	1.83	2.41	0.98	0.85	1.34
Male	0.84	1.73	0.78	3.36	2.26	1.53	2.70	4.25	1.14	1.07	2.03
Female	0.72	1.64	0.81	1.93	2.44	1.30	2.85	2.51	1.58	1.29	1.81

Other Non-Hispanic:	0.82	1.61	0.88	2.71	2.48	1.52	2.57	4.01	1.91	1.10	1.57
Male	1.17	2.45	1.09	5.25	3.21	1.96	4.34	4.23	2.25	1.39	2.41
Female	1.14	2.14	1.32	1.74	3.97	2.24	2.06	6.55	2.65	1.75	2.01

Hispanic:	0.38	0.69	0.45	1.20	1.02	0.69	0.96	1.50	0.98	0.51	1.67
Male	0.51	0.86	0.65	1.35	1.33	1.00	1.19	1.60	1.62	0.75	3.13
Female	0.58	1.04	0.67	1.93	1.45	1.00	1.46	2.79	1.15	0.76	1.75

Puerto Rican:^a	1.83	3.38	1.91	4.35	5.04	2.14	2.42	5.77	3.59	2.64	6.07
Male	2.67	5.22	2.76	3.48	8.21	2.61	3.24	5.86	4.14	3.91	9.65
Female	2.09	3.33	2.37	7.15	4.49	3.31	3.29	10.77	5.14	2.78	4.58

Mexican/Mexican-American:^a	0.38	0.78	0.45	1.56	1.07	0.66	1.04	2.01	0.79	0.58	1.52
Male	0.46	0.87	0.55	1.58	1.11	0.76	1.09	2.29	0.82	0.90	1.32
Female	0.73	1.33	0.86	2.64	1.80	1.26	1.78	3.65	1.54	0.89	2.33

Region:
Northeast	0.45	1.09	0.49	1.32	1.62	1.15	2.20	1.60	1.81	0.58	0.71
Midwest	0.45	0.94	0.50	1.74	1.27	0.96	1.91	2.37	0.89	0.71	0.86
South	0.27	0.63	0.30	1.11	0.93	0.46	1.40	1.18	0.61	0.43	0.73
West	0.42	0.71	0.50	0.97	1.12	0.85	1.55	2.13	1.18	0.71	1.05

Ratio of Family Income to
Poverty Threshold:^b
0-.99	0.63	1.06	0.72	1.77	1.57	0.92	1.54	1.79	1.29	1.18	1.49
1.00-2.49	0.40	0.75	0.43	0.90	1.07	0.80	2.16	1.42	0.85	0.68	0.88
2.50-4.49	0.38	0.66	0.45	1.32	0.93	0.86	2.10	1.86	1.08	0.59	1.09
4.50 and above	0.33	0.81	0.36	1.35	1.17	0.83	1.69	2.69	0.98	0.40	1.03

Notes:

Source: National Health Interview Survey, National Center for Health Statistics, CDC, Compiled 8/30/2010

^† See the Methods section of the documentation found at http://www.cdc.gov/asthma/NHIS/default.htm for information regarding standard errors.

^a As a subset of Hispanic.

^b Missing responses imputed.

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