Lack of Reliable Transportation for Daily Living, United States 2022

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• Personal Author:
  Ng, Amanda E. ; Adjaye-Gbewonyo, Dzifa ; Dahlhamer, James
• Description:
  Access to transportation may be required for many daily tasks, including going to work, health care visits, and obtaining groceries. Previous research suggests that a lack of transportation, especially among adults who are older, uninsured, and have lower incomes, leads to reduced access to health care, which may then lead to adverse health outcomes (1,2). Using data from the 2022 National Health Interview Survey, this report describes the percentage of adults who lacked reliable transportation for daily living in the past 12 months by selected sociodemographic and geographic characteristics.
  
  Key findings
  
  Data from the National Health Interview Survey
  
  ● In 2022, 5.7% of adults lacked reliable transportation for daily living in the past 12 months. Women (6.1%) were more likely than men (5.3%) to lack reliable transportation.
  
  ● The percentage of adults who lacked reliable transportation was lowest among Asian non-Hispanic adults (3.6%) compared with other race and Hispanic origin groups.
  
  ● Lack of reliable transportation decreased with increasing education level and family income. ● Adults living in the West North Central region of the United States (7.5%) were more likely to lack reliable transportation than the national average (5.7%), while adults in New England (4.1%) were less likely
  
  
• Series:
  NCHS Data Briefs
• Document Type:
  Report
• Name as Subject:
  National Health Interview Survey (U.S.) ; National Health Interview Survey (U.S.)
• Genre:
  Statistics
• Place as Subject:
  United States
• CIO:
  National Center for Health Statistics (U.S.)
• Pages in Document:
  8 numbered pages
• Issue:
  490
• Collection(s):
  Stephen B. Thacker CDC Library
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha256:50767d28d3c5f7bf47f6f398f4461a274eb1ea2110ec906cdd7c42843f07f7a0
• Download URL:
  https://stacks.cdc.gov/view/cdc/135611/cdc_135611_DS1.pdf
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