Definition: Estimated percentage of children and young adults ages 0-20 with Medicaid, CHIP, or other means-tested public health insurance coverage at the time of survey, by race/ethnicity (e.g., in 2022, 55.3% of Hispanic/Latino children and youth in California had means-tested public health insurance coverage).
Data Source: Population Reference Bureau, analysis of U.S. Census Bureau American Community Survey public use microdata (Mar. 2024).
Footnote: Medicare and other non-means-tested public health insurance programs (e.g., Dept. of Defense TRICARE, Indian Health Service) are not included in these estimates. Means testing considers financial circumstances in determining eligibility. Medicaid is a federal program providing health coverage to eligible low-income children and families; Medi-Cal is California's Medicaid program. CHIP (Children's Health Insurance Program) is a federal program providing coverage to children up to age 19 in families with incomes too high to qualify them for Medicaid but too low to afford private coverage. California's CHIP program was called the Healthy Families Program (HFP). Although California continues to receive CHIP funding, in 2013 HFP enrollees were transitioned into Medi-Cal. Estimates exclude children and youth in institutional group quarters and those in the active-duty military. Race/ethnicity categories are mutually exclusive. These estimates are based on a survey of the population and are subject to both sampling and nonsampling error. Data for 2020 are not available due to disruptions in data collection. The notation S refers to estimates that have been suppressed because the margin of error was greater than 5 percentage points. N/A means that data are not available.
