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Percent Distribution of Number of Visits to Health Care Professionals (Statistical Abstract 2008 Table 0156)

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The Statistical Abstract of the United States is the standard summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States. It is also designed to serve as a guide to other statistical publications and sources. The latter function is served by the introductory text to each section, the source note appearing below each table, and Appendix I, which comprises the Guide to Sources of Statistics, the Guide to State Statistical Abstracts, and the Guide to Foreign Statistical Abstracts.
This volume includes a selection of data from many statistical sources, both government and private. Publications cited as sources usually contain additional statistical detail and more comprehensive discussions of definitions and concepts. Data not available in publications issued by the contributing agency but obtained from the Internet or unpublished records are identified in the source notes. More information on the subjects covered in the tables so noted may generally be obtained from the source.

Although emphasis in the Statistical Abstract is primarily given to national data, many tables present data for regions and individual states and a smaller number for metropolitan areas and cities. Appendix II, Metropolitan and Micropolitan Statistical Areas: Concepts, Components, and Population, presents explanatory text, a complete current listing and population data for metropolitan and micropolitan areas defined as of December 2005. Statistics for the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico and for island areas of the United States are included in many state tables and are supplemented by information in Section 29. Additional information for states, cities, counties, metropolitan areas, and other small units, as well as more historical data are available in various supplements to the Abstract.

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US Census Bureau source http://www.census.gov/statab/www

U.S. Census Bureau,
Statistical Abstract of the United States: 2008 (127th Edition)
Washington, DC, 2007;
http://www.census.gov/statab/www/

Philip (flip) Kromer converted http://infochimp.org/flip
U.S. National Center for Health Statistics,

U.S. National Center for Health Statistics,

Health, United States, 2006.

referenced on dataset section Data (#1)

U.S. National Center for Health Statistics, http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus.htm

U.S. National Center for Health Statistics,

Health, United States, 2006.

For more information:

http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/hus.htm

referenced on dataset section Notes (#2)

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The Statistical Abstract files are distributed by the census department as excel files. These files have data mixed with notes and references, multiple tables per sheet, and worst of all the table headers aren’t easily matched to their rows and columns.
The excel files in this collection are unmolested copies of the census originals, with the following exceptions:

  1. A few files had extraneous characters in the title. These were
    corrected to be consistent. A few files have a sheet of crufty
    gibberish in the first slot. The sheet order was shuffled but no
    data were changed.
The tables that were changed: 0166 0257 0362 0429 0445 0446 0459 0461 0462 0464 0465 0466 0467 0469 0479 0480 0481 0482 0483 0484 0485 0486 0487 0559 0628 0629 1144 1227 1231
  1. The first four files have been restructured to allow full
    comprehension of the table. If you’d like to help clean up the data
    follow along with what’s there.

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These files have been tagged by hand and received cursory inspection, but you’re advised to check against the originals before you go lauching any Mars rovers.

Footnotes

Notes (pg 2)

  1. Includes other races not shown separately.
  2. Estimates are age adjusted to the year 2000 standard using six age groups: Under 18 years, 18 to 44 years,
    45 to 54 years, 55 to 64 years, 65 to 74 years, and 75 years and over.
  3. Estimates by race and Hispanic origin are tabulated using the 1997
    standards for federal data on race and ethnicity.
    Estimates for specific race groups are shown when they meet requirements
    for statistical reliability and confidentiality. The categories “White
    only,” “Black or African American only,” “American Indian and Alaska Native (AI/AN) only,” and “Asian
    only” include persons who reported only one
    racial group; and the category “2 or more races” includes persons who reported more than one of the
    five racial groups in the 1997 Standards or one of the five racial groups and “Some other race.”
  4. Persons of Hispanic or Latino origin may be of any race or combination of races.

Headnotes

[Covers ambulatory visits to doctor’s offices and emergency
departments, and home health care visits during a 12-month period
Based on the redesigned National Health Interview Survey,
a sample survey of the civilian noninstitutionalized population]
Data presented in this table are not comparable with data on physician
contacts presented in previous editions of the source. See Appendix III]

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table: [41, 9]

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Characteristic None 1 to 3 visits 4 to 9 visits visits
2000 2005 2000 2005 2000 2005 2000 2005
All persons 1 2 16.6 15.6 45.4 46.2 24.7 24.6 13.3 13.7
AGE:
Under 18 years 12.2 10.2 53.7 56.3 26.4 26.1 7.7 7.4
Under 6 years 6.3 5.1 44.3 47.9 38.3 37.5 11.2 9.5
6 to 17 years 15.1 12.7 58.2 60.4 20.7 20.6 6 6.4
18 to 44 years 23.2 23.1 45.3 46 19.2 18.8 12.2 12.1
18 to 24 years 24.3 24.3 45.6 44.7 18.8 19.2 11.2 11.8
25 to 44 years 22.9 22.6 45.2 46.5 19.3 18.7 12.6 12.2
45 to 64 years 15 14.1 43.4 43.1 25.7 26.4 15.8 16.4
9=. … snip
Source: U.S. National Center for Health Statistics,
Health, United States, 2006.

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Year

2008

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