Table 2. Dental Services - Percent of persons with a dental expense, mean expense per person with an expense, and percent of total paid out of pocket, United States, 2009 (25 statesa are shown separately)
State Unweighted sample
size		 Population
(1,000s)b		 Percent with
an expenseb		 Mean per
person with an
expenseb		 Percent of
total paid out
of pocketb
All
persons		 Persons
with an
expense
United States 34,920         12,502         306,661         41.2         659.9         48.9        
 
California 5,803         1,924         30,513         38.3         689.2         42.4        
Texas 3,469         955         21,161         32.5         667.2         50.3        
New York 1,982         632         15,666         37.2         757.1         57.2        
Florida 2,176         636         14,884         32.3         821.8         60.8        
Illinois 1,306         521         10,563         44.4         760.8         48.3        
Pennsylvania 992         375         10,302         43.5         648.3         47.6        
Ohio 1,150         401         9,596         37.8         713.9         49.0        
Michigan 1,075         511         8,081         48.8         672.7         35.7        
Georgia 1,216         374         7,928         36.2         485.0         53.0        
North Carolina 980         382         7,750         44.1         522.0         37.5        
New Jersey 1,063         372         7,418         42.2         707.1         44.0        
Virginia 996         366         6,601         42.4         559.5         48.0        
Arizona 649         204         5,420         35.1         645.7         54.2        
Washington 924         381         5,359         45.7         851.8         42.7        
Massachusetts 504         264         5,330         55.9         739.0  *      47.0        
Indiana 639         239         5,329         38.2         570.9         47.1        
Tennessee 547         167         5,197         37.1         558.1         58.2        
Missouri 597         215         4,906         35.8         470.9         55.4        
Maryland 565         258         4,624         52.9         558.3         54.6        
Wisconsin 611         323         4,558         56.9         539.0         38.1        
Minnesota 561         279         4,242         55.3         741.6         51.2        
Colorado 444         183         4,014         46.1         787.2         36.5        
Alabama 519         181         3,980         39.6         420.3         37.6        
South Carolina 382         133         3,895         39.1         538.3         46.6        
Louisiana 354         118         3,771         38.3         454.7         48.5        




Standard errors for Dental Services - Percent of persons with a dental expense, mean expense per person with an expense, and percent of total paid out of pocket, United States, 2009 (25 statesa are shown separately)
State Standard error for Degrees of freedom associated with estimating standard errorsc
Percent with an
expenseb		 Mean per person
with an expenseb		 Percent of total
paid out of pocketb
United States 0.6           16.6           1.1           204          
 
California 1.6           30.5           2.1           32          
Texas 1.2           33.7           4.1           16          
New York 1.5           80.9           4.7           11          
Florida 2.3           103.1           4.4           10          
Illinois 2.6           89.1           2.7           8          
Pennsylvania 3.7           53.9           4.2           6          
Ohio 1.1           189.7           12.5           6          
Michigan 4.2           37.1           3.3           5          
Georgia 2.8           93.7           6.7           7          
North Carolina 1.6           34.4           2.4           3          
New Jersey 2.0           70.8           1.6           6          
Virginia 5.5           62.7           2.5           5          
Arizona 1.9           146.6           5.2           4          
Washington 3.1           51.8           5.8           5          
Massachusetts 2.5           289.7  *        7.4           2          
Indiana 2.2           32.5           9.6           3          
Tennessee 9.4           92.7           8.9           2          
Missouri 4.9           102.4           6.2           3          
Maryland 5.6           144.1           8.8           3          
Wisconsin 4.7           27.5           3.6           4          
Minnesota 5.7           120.4           4.5           4          
Colorado 5.2           128.8           4.7           3          
Alabama 9.7           42.3           1.2           2          
South Carolina 4.7           83.6           5.0           2          
Louisiana 6.9           62.2           11.1           2          

* Relative standard error equal to or greater than 30%.

a Estimates are provided for 25 states and are listed in order of state population size. Reliable estimates can not be produced for the other states due to insufficient sample in those states.

b "Population" and "Percent with an expense" columns are based on "All persons". "Mean per person with an expense" and "Percent distribution of total expenses by source payments" columns are based on "Persons with an expense".

c The precision of an estimated standard error depends on the degrees of freedom available for estimating the standard error. In constructing a confidence interval for a state-level estimate, the corresponding degrees of freedom should be used in obtaining the critical value from the Student’s t-distribution.

Source: Center for Financing, Access, and Cost Trends, Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality: Medical Expenditure Panel Survey Household Component, 2009.