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Percent of adults with fair or poor health status

Measure Overview

Health status can serve as an important barometer for understanding the overall well-being of our communities as well as assist public health officials in identifying areas experiencing worsened health statuses indicating a need for intervention.

State Health Compare provides state-level rates of adults who report being in fair or poor health. These estimates can be broken down by education level and by four race/ethnicity groups (African American/Black, Hispanic/Latino, White, and Other/Multiple Races).

The data for this measure are sourced from the American Community Survey (ACS) and Current Population Survey (CPS). As SHADAC and other organizations have documented, the COVID-19 pandemic was the cause of several substantial disruptions to data collection efforts (i.e., non-response bias) for the 2020 ACS and CPS (2019 data), among other impacts. Preliminary results show that the 2021 CPS (2020 data) was also affected by the pandemic, but perhaps not to the same degree. Users are cautioned by the U.S. Census Bureau to treat these estimates with care.

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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.