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Percent of adults with fair or poor health status

Measure Overview

On the Current Population Survey (CPS) Annual Social and Economic Supplement (ASEC), respondents are asked to rate their health status on the following five-point scale:

Excellent
Very Good
Good
Fair
Poor

Health status can serve as an important barometer for understanding the overall well-being of communities as well as assist public health officials in identifying areas or populations experiencing worsened health status. The ability to track populations’ reported health status over time can help in understanding potential impacts of implemented policies, programs, or interventions to improve health status.

Health Status by State and More: Breakdowns and Data Source

State Health Compare provides annual, state-level estimates of the percent of adults with fair or poor health status using data from the Current Population Survey Annual Social and Economic Supplements (CPS-ASEC) public use microdata files.

Two breakdowns are available for this measure: Education and Race/Ethnicity.

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Notes

The margin of error (MOE) represents the uncertainty of an estimate due to sampling variability; the calculated MOE is 95%. N/A indicates that data were not available or suppressed because the number of sample cases was too small. There is a break in series because CPS modified its processing system in 2018 (2017 data were re-processed under new system).

Data collection for the 2020 CPS (2019 estimates) was impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, which likely caused measurable non-response bias. Users should treat 2019 estimates with caution. More information is available in Census Working Paper SEHSD WP2020-10. Data collection for the 2021 CPS (2020 estimates) was also impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, which likely caused measurable non-response bias. More information is available in a September 2021 Census blog post. Though data collection for the 2022 CPS (2021 estimates) was not impacted by the pandemic, response rates continued to be below pre-pandemic normal, which has resulted in small, but measurable nonresponse bias. More information is available in a September 2022 Census blog post. Users should treat 2019–2021 estimates with caution.

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