Low Income Uninsured Children by State*
(Numbers in Thousands)

*SOURCE: http://www.hcfa.gov/init/1mb115.htm. Final Notice from the Federal Register: State Children’s Health Insurance Program; Reserved Allotments to States for Fiscal Year 1998; Enhanced Federal Medical Assistance Percentages – September 9, 1997. See also http://www.census.gov/hhes/hlthins/lowinckid.html.

NOTE: The number of children for each state (provided in thousands) was determined and provided by the Bureau of the Census based on the arithmetic average of the number of low-income children and low-income children with no health insurance as calculated from the three most recent March supplements to the Current Population Survey. These data represent the number of people in each state under 19 years of age whose family income is at or below 200 percent of the poverty threshold appropriate for that family, and who are reported to be not covered by health insurance. The number of children for each state was developed by the Bureau of the Census based on the standard methodology used to determine official poverty status and uninsured status in their annual Current Population Reports on these topics.

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